The Ben Bathurst Memorial Trust

Analysis

The Ben Bathurst Memorial Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Herefordshire. It was registered in April 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, the prevention or relief of poverty and other charitable purposes, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Ben Bathurst Memorial Trust reported income of £59k and spending of £213k, spending 359% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £27k to £59k (+119%), an average of +22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 80360%. Over the whole period it spent 138% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Ben Bathurst Memorial Trust sits at the 55th percentile: it is larger than about 55% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 63rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ropner Trust (£59k), Lighthouse Counselling Trust (£59k) and Community Friends of Malton, Norton and District Hospital (£59k).