BENEFACT TRUST LIMITED — grant history

Registered charity 263960 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income

£48.9m

Grants listed (FY2024)

Listed grants total

£3.2m

Accounts grants total

£25.5m

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2024 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: Benefact Trust accepts unsolicited applications via an online portal for Community Impact, Building, and Methodist Grants. Strategic Partnerships and Crisis Response Grants are by invitation only.

Summarised from benefacttrust.co.uk · benefacttrust.co.uk/grants/ · benefacttrust.co.uk/apply/ on 15/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

Credited as a funder by

Charities that name this funder on their own websites (website claims, separate from the accounts-extracted grants below).

THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MARY, STRETTON WITH CLAYMILLS “Roof repairs have been carried out at St Mary’s supported by the National Churches trust, The Benefact Trust”
GROWING HOPE “We are grateful to Benefact Trust and Garfield Weston Foundation for their generous support.”
SANCTUARY FOUNDATION “This website has been supported by funding from the Benefact Trust”
THE DIOCESE IN EUROPE BOARD OF FINANCE “The creation of this website was supported by Benefact Trust”
SUTTON'S HOSPITAL IN CHARTERHOUSE “Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement Allchurches Trust Limited”

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded

Education/training (2 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (1 grantee)
General Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (1 grantee)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (2 grantees)
Scotland (1 grantee)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
The General Synod of the Church of England	FY2024	£1.5m	Demonstrator Churches project to achieve net zero
Cathedrals' Workshop Fellowship	FY2024	£509k	Heritage Skills Programme (first year of 2025-2029 partnership)
The General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church (SEC)	FY2024	£490k	Net zero demonstrator churches
Médecins Sans Frontières and Christian Aid	FY2024	£408k	Crisis Response: Gaza and Lebanon
World Vision	FY2024	£150k	Crisis Response: Sudan
Canadian Red Cross and Anglican and Catholic Dioceses of Jasper	FY2024	£142k	Crisis Response: Jasper wildfires, Canada
Citizens Advice	FY2024	£50k	Crisis Response: UK emergency support helpline

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 3249000 vs reference 25500000 (87.3% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.