The Williamson Benevolent Trust

Analysis

The Williamson Benevolent Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Retford. It was registered in May 1974, 52 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Williamson Benevolent Trust reported income of £65k and spending of £82k, spending 126% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £43k to £65k (+51%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 37%. Over the whole period it spent 118% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Williamson Benevolent Trust sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Saf Homeless Charity (£65k), Everlasting Foundation (£65k) and Anjuman-E-Qaim-E-Aal-Emuhammed (£65k).

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.