The Standard Chartered Bank Benevolent Fund

Analysis

The Standard Chartered Bank Benevolent Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in May 1985, 41 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 individuals.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Standard Chartered Bank Benevolent Fund reported income of £69k and spending of £61k, spending 88% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £161 to £69k (+42863%), an average of +355% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 37257%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Standard Chartered Bank Benevolent Fund sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Cibse Benevolent Fund Trust (£69k), The James and Ada Robb Charity (£69k) and Order of the Secret Monitor Fund of Benevolence (£69k).