BERNARD LEWIS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1125035 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE BERNARD LEWIS CHARITABLE TRUST

The income and capital of the Trust is to be used, in whole or part, exclusively for the benefit of charitable purposes at the discretion of the Trustees.The legally permitted objectives are wide and cover generally accepted charitable objects.

Objects

TO APPLY THE INCOME, AND ALL OR SUCH PART OR PARTS OF THE CAPITAL, AT SUCH TIME OR TIMES AND IN SUCH MANNER TO, OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF, SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE OBJECTS AND PURPOSES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net expenditure of £1,480,871 for the year, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted funds from £6,651,036 to £5,170,165. The trustees consider the trust to have more than adequate financial resources to continue in operation for at least twelve months, confirming the appropriateness of the going concern basis. Reserves are maintained to cover committed grants and operating costs, assuming no further income is received.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Knox Cropper LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~10.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (96% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/08/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CAROLINE JANE GRAINGE
• CLIVE ROBERT LEWIS
• LEONARD RICHARD LEWIS

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DAVID & RUTH LEWIS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST.

• DAVID & RUTH LEWIS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST income £4.6m
• THE BRITWELL TRUST income £37k
• DAVID LISTER CHARITABLE TRUST income £492k
• BDO CHARITABLE TRUST income £50k
• THE HARRIS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST income £71k
• THE PAULINE AND HAROLD BERMAN CHARITABLE TRUST income £48k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.