Bonamy Charitable Trust

Analysis

Bonamy Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cheshire. It was registered in October 1983, 43 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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, Bonamy Charitable Trust reported income of £214k and spending of £206k, spending 96% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £165k to £214k (+30%), an average of +6.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 34%. Over the whole period it spent 95% 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, Bonamy Charitable Trust sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include RJ and Ah Daniels Charitable Trust (£214k), The Elm Tree Trust (£214k) and The John Slater Foundation (£213k).