THE LEVERHULME TRUST

Registered charity 1159154 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q6535298 · Wikipedia

The Trust provides scholarships and other similar support for education and research. by making grants across a broad range of schemes, by identifying individuals who can demonstrate high-quality scholarship, originality, and excellence, in their chosen research proposal.

Objects

The objects of the CIO for the public benefit are to promote any purpose being exclusively charitable according to the law of England and Wales through the provision of scholarships and other similar support for education and research.

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) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £4,137m, which the Trustees consider to be in line with their policy target of maintaining the real value of reserves over the long term. The charity reported investment income of £124.5m and grants awarded of £137.5m, with a net movement in funds of £130.9m driven by significant investment gains. The Trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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.

UK research funding (UKRI Gateway to Research)

• Self assembling peptide hydrogels for human stem cell culture —
• Engineering Therapeutic Microbubbles —
• Network for Integrated Behavioural Science —
• Centre for Market and Public Organisation —
• The significance of matriarchal experience for effective leadership in African elephant —
• On-site assembly of the actin cortex in semi-synthetic cells to control cell mechanics and behaviour —
• Engineering motile artificial cells capable of swimming up concentration gradients —
• Advancing bacterial 3D printing for the production of next-generation bio-materials —
• Bionic Robotics: Autonomous Biohybrid Machines powered by skeletal muscle tissues —
• "Bioprinting of smart deformable structures" —

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (100% 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: 3.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/12/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Jopechair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Conny Helena Maria Braams · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dame Hayaatun Sillem DBE PhD · trustee of 4 other charities
• Graeme Pitkethly · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Richard Slater · trustee of 1 other charity
• Keith Weed · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mhairi McEwan · trustee of 1 other charity
• PROF KEITH GULL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul McNicholl · trustee of 1 other charity
• Quintin Rupert Salter Price · trustee of 1 other charity
• Susan Bjorg Garrard · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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Side by side with its peers

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