The Lyras Family Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Lyras Family Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in May 1990, 36 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, 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. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Lyras Family Charitable Trust reported income of £24k and spending of £37k, spending 154% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £19k to £24k (+29%), an average of +6.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 140% 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 Lyras Family Charitable Trust sits at the 41st percentile: it is larger than about 41% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 48th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Change a Chapter (£24k), Windermere and Ambleside Lions Club (£24k) and Sworde-Teppa (£24k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.