The Legh Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Legh Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in October 1987, 39 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 organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Legh Charitable Trust reported income of £13k and spending of £10k, spending 83% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £12k to £13k (+3.3%), an average of +0.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 37%. Over the whole period it spent 88% 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, The Legh Charitable Trust sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 47% 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 Mri Software Foundation UK (£13k), The Robin Macleod Charitable Trust (£13k) and The Darkley Trust (£13k).