Bestobell-Meggitt Welfare Trust

Analysis

Bestobell-Meggitt Welfare Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in March 1982, 44 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Bestobell-Meggitt Welfare Trust reported income of £48k and spending of £2.1m, spending 4426% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £124k to £48k (-61%), an average of -21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2025, when income dropped by 49%. Over the whole period it spent 1273% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Bestobell-Meggitt Welfare Trust sits at the 51st percentile: it is larger than about 51% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Simlak Muslim Welfare Society (£48k), Society for the Social History of Medicine (£48k) and The Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (£48k).