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Estate Charity of Lady Leveson's or the Foxley Charity

Registered · see notesRegistered charity number 256661OxfordEnvironment and conservation
Income£88k2025-12-31
Spending£158ksame year
Spent / received128%5-year average
Size in its cause77th pctEnvironment and conservation
Registered1968Other
Employees–latest return

Analysis

Estate Charity of Lady Leveson's or the Foxley Charity is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Oxford. It was registered in September 1968, 58 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under environment and conservation. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Estate Charity of Lady Leveson's or the Foxley Charity reported income of £88k and spending of £158k, spending 179% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £87k to £88k (+1.1%), an average of +0.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income rose by 36%. Over the whole period it spent 128% of the income it received.

Among 4,574 England and Wales charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Estate Charity of Lady Leveson's or the Foxley Charity sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 77% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of the Peace Parks (£87k), London Environmental Health Practitioners (£88k) and Irish Georgian Society London (£87k).

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£48k£95k£143k£190k2021 Income: £87,1962021 Spending: £42,69020212022 Income: £79,5912022 Spending: £62,71220222023 Income: £81,8882023 Spending: £121,44320232024 Income: £111,5382024 Spending: £190,45420242025 Income: £88,1382025 Spending: £158,1282025
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Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

Gives charitable donations to six trusts, of which four are in the surrounding parishes one being for the maintenance of Lady Leveson chapel in Warwick cathedral

Similar-sized charities, same cause

CharityLocationIncome
Friends of the Peace ParksLondon£87k
London Environmental Health PractitionersLondon£88k
Irish Georgian Society LondonLondon£87k
The Maxfield Nature Conservation TrustWest Sussex£88k