The Hugh and Montague Leney Travelling Awards Trust

Analysis

The Hugh and Montague Leney Travelling Awards Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Kent. It was registered in August 1961, 65 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, the prevention or relief of poverty and overseas aid/famine relief, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to individuals.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Hugh and Montague Leney Travelling Awards Trust reported income of £12k and spending of £16k, spending 130% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £15k to £12k (-19%), an average of -5.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income dropped by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 35% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Hugh and Montague Leney Travelling Awards Trust sits at the 30th percentile: it is larger than about 30% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 35th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Somali Women and Children Community Development Group (Swaco) (£12k), Blakeney and District Recreation Centre (£12k) and Al Bashir Foundation (£12k).