The Tom Lethaby Memorial Trust

Analysis

The Tom Lethaby Memorial Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bristol. It was registered in March 1982, 44 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 February 2026, The Tom Lethaby Memorial Trust reported income of £17k and spending of £22k, spending 130% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from February 2022 to February 2026, income grew from £6,052 to £17k (+181%), an average of +30% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to February 2025, when income rose by 215%. Over the whole period it spent 123% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Tom Lethaby Memorial Trust sits at the 40th percentile: it is larger than about 40% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 41st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Salt and Light Charitable Settlement (£17k), Apostolic Grace Ministries (£17k) and Leicester Westleigh Christadelphian Church Limited (£17k).