Mrs Vera Leigh's Charity

Analysis

Mrs Vera Leigh's Charity is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Surrey. It was registered in February 1978, 48 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Mrs Vera Leigh's Charity reported income of £27k and spending of £36k, spending 133% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £111k to £27k (-75%), an average of -30% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income dropped by 74%. Over the whole period it spent 122% 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, Mrs Vera Leigh's Charity sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The S and F Goodman Trust (£27k), Batley and Birstall Community Fund CIO (£27k) and Royal Army Chaplains' Department Association (£27k).

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.