The Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Leeds. It was registered in December 1962, 64 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust reported income of £160k and spending of £211k, spending 132% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £112k to £160k (+43%), an average of +9.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 54%. Over the whole period it spent 150% 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, The Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 78th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Priory Foundation (£160k), The Lemford Foundation (£160k) and Globe and Laurel Magazine (£160k).

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.