BENESCO CHARITY LIMITED

Registered charity 269181 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BENESCO LIMITED

Generating income from property and other investments in order to make grants to various registered charities including but not exclusively in the fields of medicine, education and welfare.

Objects

TO FURTHER ANY PURPOSE OR PURPOSES RECOGNISED BY THE LAW OF ENGLAND AS CHARITABLE. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 18TH FEBRUARY 1970).

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 · 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 FY2023 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £34,054,654 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £187.7 million to £153.6 million. Unrestricted reserves fell to £3,878,530, while the majority of assets (£149.75 million) are held in designated investment properties. The trustees confirm sufficient resources exist to continue operations for at least twelve months.

Automated summary of the FY2023 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BDO 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00972762

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• BREUER-WEIL, Mikael — director, appointed 07/05/2021on trustee list
• KC, Wolfson Of Tredegar, Lord — director, appointed 20/04/2017on trustee list
• WOLFSON, Andrew Daniel — director, appointed 19/12/2001on trustee list
• RAGOL-LEVY, Jonathan — director, appointed 09/09/1999on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

11 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (11 freehold); recorded price paid £28.6m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (99% 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: 21.8% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• HONOURABLE ANDREW DANIEL WOLFSONchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• JONATHAN RAGOL-LEVY
• Lord David Wolfson KC · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mikael Breuer-Weil

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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