BENEFACT TRUST LIMITED — grant history

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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.

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

CHAPEL STREET METHODIST CHURCH PENZANCE “Methodist Church funds (both local and national) have been used but we are extremely grateful to the Benefact Trust for ”
TRANSFORMING CHURCHES AND COMMUNITIES “Benefact Trust Benefact Trust exists to make a positive difference to people's lives by funding, guiding and celebratin”
CRIBS CHARITABLE TRUST “Benefact Trust - for supporting the delivery of our new Mentoring Hubs in local churches”
LLANTHONY SECUNDA PRIORY TRUST “Our website is kindly sponsored by Allchurches Trust Ltd.”
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF SANDON WITH BURSTON “Benefact Trust exists to make a positive difference to people's lives by funding, guiding and celebrating the work of ch”
GROWING HOPE REDBRIDGE “We are grateful to Benefact Trust and Garfield Weston Foundation for their generous support.”
BARKING CHURCHES UNITE (BCU) “IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ALDI | AMAZON | ASDA | BARKING & DAGENHAM COUNCIL | BENEFACT TRUST | CADENT | CHABAD LUBAVITCH | COS”
THE RAILWAY MISSION “Railway Mission is supported by the Benefact Trust”
THE MAGDALENE PROJECT “‘‘Giving is at the heart of what we do. Benefact Trust is one of the UK’s largest Christian grant-making trusts. Since w”
ROOTS FOR CHURCHES LIMITED “We would also like to thank The Jerusalem Trust, The Beatrice Laing Trust and The Allchurches Trust for their initial fi”
WOMEN@THEWELL “We are and have been generously supported by a range of trusts and foundations including the Institute of Our Lady of Me”
OPEN HOUSE (CHRISTIAN OUTREACH) TRUST “Massive thanks to The Gavins Foundation , National Lottery Awards For All , The Garfield Weston Foundation , Benefact T”
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF WICKFORD AND RUNWELL “We completed Phase 1 of this project in 2023, having raised £20,000 (including grants from Benefact Trust and The Listed”
GROWING HOPE KING'S CROSS “We are grateful to Benefact Trust and Garfield Weston Foundation for their generous support.”
GROWING HOPE BROCKLEY “We are grateful to Benefact Trust and Garfield Weston Foundation for their generous support.”
GROWING HOPE HIGH WYCOMBE “We are grateful to Benefact Trust and Garfield Weston Foundation for their generous support.”
THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL COVENTRY “In 2023, with the support and financial grant offered to us from Benefact Trust we were able to employ a part time Donor”
LIVING GRACE MINISTRY “A representative from the Benefact Trust that contributed £60,000 towards the building fund, was in attendance to witnes”
THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF SAINT JAMES AND SAINT EDMUND, BURY ST EDMUNDS “St Edmundsbury Cathedral would like to thank the following individuals, grant-givers, groups and businesses who are curr”
CATHEDRALS' WORKSHOP FELLOWSHIP “Benefact Trust – Scholars Programme”

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

The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (8 grantees)
Education/training (7 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (6 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (3 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (3 grantees)
Overseas Aid/famine Relief (2 grantees)
Accommodation/housing (2 grantees)
Disability (2 grantees)
Amateur Sport (1 grantee)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (7 grantees)
Scotland (5 grantees)
Northern Ireland (5 grantees)
Bangladesh (1 grantee)
Burkina Faso (1 grantee)
Burma (1 grantee)
British Virgin Islands (1 grantee)
Croatia (1 grantee)
Djibouti (1 grantee)
Cayman Islands (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2022 → FY2024

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings we have read. A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2022	FY2024
new	The General Synod of the Church of England	—	£1.5m
new	CATHEDRALS' WORKSHOP FELLOWSHIP	—	£509k
new	The General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church (SEC)	—	£490k
new	Médecins Sans Frontières and Christian Aid	—	£408k
new	Canadian Red Cross and Anglican and Catholic Dioceses of Jasper	—	£142k
new	THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX	—	£50k
down	World Vision	£1.0m	£150k
not listed	TOGETHER MIDDLESBROUGH AND CLEVELAND	£2.2m	—
not listed	DEPAUL INTERNATIONAL	£1.0m	—
not listed	THE BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY	£1.0m	—
not listed	Depaul Ireland	£500k	—
not listed	DEPAUL UK	£500k	—
not listed	Heritage Skills for Christian Buildings Grants	£159k	—
not listed	LINKING LIVES UK	£145k	—
not listed	Lightwood Green Methodist	£27k	—

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
Together Middlesbrough and Cleveland	FY2022	£2.2m	Brighter Lives Grants Programme (mental health)
Depaul International	FY2022	£1.0m	Ukraine crisis response
British Red Cross	FY2022	£1.0m	Ukraine crisis response
World Vision	FY2022	£1.0m	Ukraine crisis response
Depaul Ireland	FY2022	£500k	Cost of Living Crisis response
Depaul UK	FY2022	£500k	Cost of Living Crisis response
Heritage Skills for Christian Buildings Grants	FY2022	£159k	Heritage Skills for Christian Buildings Grants Programme
Linking Lives UK	FY2022	£145k	Transformational Grants Programme
Lightwood Green Methodist	FY2022	£27k	Methodist Grants Programme
The Collegiate Church of St Mary in Warwick	FY2022	£24k	General Grants Programme (building repairs)
Church Urban Fund	FY2022	—	Ukraine crisis response (refugees in UK/Ireland)
Baby Basics	FY2022	—	Ukraine crisis response (refugees in UK/Ireland)
Love Your Neighbour	FY2022	—	Ukraine crisis response (refugees in UK/Ireland)
Warm Welcome Campaign	FY2022	—	Cost of Living Crisis response
Trussell Trust	FY2022	—	Cost of Living Crisis response

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.