West Gate Benevolent Trust

Analysis

West Gate Benevolent Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Retford. It was registered in July 1974, 52 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 April 2025, West Gate Benevolent Trust reported income of £26k and spending of £26k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £9,928 to £26k (+158%), an average of +27% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 134%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, West Gate Benevolent Trust sits at the 46th percentile: it is larger than about 46% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 50th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Educational Foundation of Jeffery Limmer and Others (£26k), Christ Revelation Faith Ministries (£26k) and The Jeffery Limmer Trust (£26k).