The Basil Samuel Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Basil Samuel Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in September 1962, 64 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2026, The Basil Samuel Charitable Trust reported income of £25k and spending of £1.0m, spending 4127% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2022 to April 2026, income grew from £8,871 to £25k (+177%), an average of +29% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 352%. Over the whole period it spent 2186% 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 Basil Samuel Charitable Trust sits at the 41st percentile: it is larger than about 41% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 49th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include SCH Charitable Trust (£25k), Gurbani Meditation Therapy (U.k) International (£25k) and The Friends of the Faversham Cottage Hospital and Community Medical Centres (£25k).

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.