Cecil and Hilda Lewis Charitable Trust

Analysis

Cecil and Hilda Lewis Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Farnham. It was registered in July 1969, 57 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under children and youth development. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Cecil and Hilda Lewis Charitable Trust reported income of £158k and spending of £165k, spending 105% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £278k to £158k (-43%), an average of -13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 34%. Over the whole period it spent 380% of the income it received.

Among 5,641 England and Wales charities whose main cause is children and youth development and that reported income, Cecil and Hilda Lewis Charitable Trust sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% 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 Ajs Charitable Trust (£157k), Friends of Histon & Impington Community (£158k) and Martin Charitable Trust (£157k).

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.