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Registered charity · Gloucester

Benefact Trust Limited

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £49m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Disability, Religious Activities and 2 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
benefacttrust.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Benefact Trust Limited
Registered
1972

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£49m£27m
  • 2023£22m£25m
  • 2022£466m£447m
Earlier years
  • 2021£426m£442m
  • 2020£6.3m£25m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable 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.

Board analysis for researchers

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

10 trustees on the board

3.4y median 3y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

15.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (3)

8
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 10General Charitable Purposes 10Disability 8Religious Activities 2

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Business services 11Finance 10Professional services 10

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£48.9m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

11.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 6.1 in 2020

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EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
263960
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 24TH FEBRUARY 1972 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 26 JULY 2007 AND SPECIAL RESOLUTION 16 JULY 2009NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 08/07/2015 as amended on 15 Jul 2021 as amended on 03 Mar 2022
Companies House
Company number 01043742 · Active
Contact on the register
01452 873189 · info@benefacttrust.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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