BENEFACT TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 263960 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q138035639 · also known as ALLCHURCHES TRUST LIMITED

The objects of ATL are to promote the Christian Religion, to contribute to the funds of any charitable institutions, associations, funds or objects and to carry out any charitable purpose.

Objects

1. TO PROMOTE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION. 2. TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE FUNDS OF ANY CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS ASSOCIATIONS FUNDS OR OBJECTS AND TO CARRY OUT ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 · Disability · Religious Activities · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Tewkesbury, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Trust's total net income fell to £5.0 million in 2025, primarily due to a decrease in donations from its trading subsidiary, BG plc. However, the Trust holds £28.0 million in unrestricted reserves, which exceeds its stated policy target of £14.9 million, and the trustees confirm that the group has adequate available resources to continue its charitable activities.

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.

• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Benefact Group — “As a Trust, our ability to support and fund so many worthwhile causes, is made possible by the hard work of the award-winning specialist fin…” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (2,989 followers) · instagram (426 followers)

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

Reported reserves equal ~11.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (83% 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: 1.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/04/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Charles Hendersonchair
• Caroline Coombs
• DAVID SCOTT PATERSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Denise Cockrem
• Ian Moore
• John Nicholas Sykes · trustee of 1 other charity
• Patrick Rudden · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Paul Harold DAVIS
• Sarah Romilly Denner-Brown
• Sir Stephen Mark Jeffery Lamport

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BRITWELL TRUST.

• THE BRITWELL TRUST income £37k
• ALAN BOSWELL GROUP CHARITABLE TRUST income £652k
• THE ANTIOCH COMMUNITY TRUST income £165k
• ADF INTERNATIONAL (UK) income £1.5m
• THE TEN CHARITABLE TRUST income £589k
• T. A. G. TRUST LTD income £191k

Side by side with its peers

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