Leslie and Lilian Manning Trust

Analysis

Leslie and Lilian Manning Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Newcastle upon Tyne. It was registered in November 1963, 63 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, Leslie and Lilian Manning Trust reported income of £35k and spending of £43k, spending 122% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £33k to £35k (+6.5%), an average of +1.6% a year. Over the whole period it spent 118% 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, Leslie and Lilian Manning Trust sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 55th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rhossili Parish Hall (£35k), Cope (Cambridgeshire Older People's Enterprise) (£35k) and Provincial Grand Mark Lodge of Surrey Benevolent Fund (£35k).

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.