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Walter Lees Foundation

Registered · see notesRegistered charity number 1138935LondonGrant-making and general purposes
Income£38k2025-10-31
Spending£125ksame year
Spent / received241%5-year average
Size in its cause67th pctGrant-making and general purposes
Registered2010Other
Employees–latest return

Analysis

Walter Lees Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in November 2010, 16 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending October 2025, Walter Lees Foundation reported income of £38k and spending of £125k, spending 334% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from October 2021 to October 2025, income fell from £43k to £38k (-12%), an average of -3.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to October 2025, when income dropped by 36%. Over the whole period it spent 241% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Walter Lees Foundation sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 67% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 56th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The E.j.g. Charitable Trust (£38k), New Friends for You (£38k) and The Murton Poole Charitable Trust (£38k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.

Income and spending

£0£31k£63k£94k£125k2021 Income: £42,5992021 Spending: £114,58120212022 Income: £43,6262022 Spending: £112,37320222023 Income: £54,1542023 Spending: £113,74120232024 Income: £58,3702024 Spending: £104,44520242025 Income: £37,5902025 Spending: £125,4752025
IncomeSpending

Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

The Trustees shall hold the capital and income of the Trust Fund upon trust to apply the income or capital at such time for the benefit of charitable objects at their discretion.In the objects clause the Trustees are also given power at their discretion to accumulate income for a period of 21 years from the date of death of the deceased.

Similar-sized charities, same cause

CharityLocationIncome
The E.j.g. Charitable TrustLondon£38k
New Friends for YouLancashire£38k
The Murton Poole Charitable TrustLondon£38k
The Audrey Wilson Charitable SettlementLondon£38k