Llewellyn Edwards Bell Restoration Fund
Analysis
Llewellyn Edwards Bell Restoration Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Pewsey. It was registered in December 1975, 51 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities, which this site groups under religion. It says it makes grants to organisations.
In the financial year ending December 2025, Llewellyn Edwards Bell Restoration Fund reported income of £668k and spending of £37k, leaving 94% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £9,553 to £668k (+6897%), an average of +189% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2025, when income rose by 3771%. Over the whole period it spent 16% of the income it received.
Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Llewellyn Edwards Bell Restoration Fund sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 94% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 92nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Michael and All Angels, Bedford Park, London (£668k), New Apostolic Church UK (£669k) and The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Michael's, Cumnor (£667k).
In its latest detailed accounts, income came from donations and legacies 98% and investments 1.6%. Gifts in wills alone brought in £651k. Charitable activities took 100% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Grants to other organisations totalled £37k.
Income and spending
Where the income comes from
- Donations 0.7%
- Legacies 97%
- Trading 0.3%
- Investments 1.6%
In the charity's own words
To assist both active and redundant Churches within the Diocese of Salisbury to: Restore and augment existing peals of bells, preserve bells from redundant churches, provide new rings of bells and undertake repairs to bells, frames and fittings and to the fabric of towers and belfries.