BENEFACT TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 263960 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · 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.

Causes: Disability · General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Religious Activities · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total net income increased to £21.4m, resulting in a surplus compared to the prior year's net expenditure. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £25.9m, which exceeds its stated policy target of £11.5m (six months of forecast cash outflows). The group reported a recognisable net pension asset of £17.6m, indicating no defined benefit deficit.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~11.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (73% 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: 0.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (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.

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 NPT Transatlantic Limited.

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• THE CORNERSTONE CHURCH GROUP income £226k
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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.