BENEFACT TRUST LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-22 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-07-08
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£171M
+4% vs 2023
Net assets
£801M
+4% vs 2023
Employees
2,273
+5.7% vs 2023
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2024-12-31
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- BENEFACT TRUST LIMITED 2022-03-07 → present
- ALLCHURCHES TRUST LIMITED 1972-02-24 → 2022-03-07
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £749,149,000 | £851,739,000 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | £18,447,000 | £49,804,000 | |
| Cash | £164,222,000 | £170,732,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £2,161,311,000 | £2,225,407,000 | |
| Net assets | £770,953,000 | £801,435,000 | |
| Equity | £770,953,000 | £801,435,000 | |
| Average employees | 2,150 | 2,273 | |
| Wages | £124,327,000 | £154,270,000 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | 2.5% | 5.8% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 66.0% | 66.0% | |
| Current ratio | 4.73x | 3.68x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the group's and the parent charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from the date on which the financial statements are authorised for issue.”
Group structure
- BENEFACT TRUST LIMITED · parent
- Benefact Group Plc 100%
- Access Underwriting Limited 100%
- Benefact Broking & Advisory Holdings Limited 100%
- Benefact Management Services Limited 100%
- Boshers Ltd 65.07%
- Ecclesiastical Insurance Office public limited company 100%
- EdenTree Asset Management Limited 100%
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
11 active · 34 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HALL, Rachael Jane | Secretary | 1995-06-30 | — | British |
| BROWN, Sarah Romilly Denner, Revd Canon | Director | 2025-03-04 | Mar 1965 | British |
| COCKREM, Denise Patricia | Director | 2024-10-01 | Nov 1962 | British |
| COOMBS, Caroline Kauslick | Director | 2024-05-02 | Jun 1959 | British,American |
| DAVIS, Paul Harold, Reverend | Director | 2020-03-29 | Mar 1957 | British |
| HENDERSON, Robert David Charles | Director | 2026-01-01 | Nov 1948 | British |
| LAMPORT, Stephen Mark Jeffrey, Sir | Director | 2026-01-01 | Nov 1951 | British |
| MOORE, Ian Keith, Dr | Director | 2023-06-22 | Nov 1965 | British |
| PATERSON, David Scott | Director | 2022-10-06 | Mar 1964 | British |
| RUDDEN, Patrick | Director | 2023-06-22 | Jan 1963 | British |
| SYKES, John Nicholas | Director | 2023-06-22 | Jul 1959 | British |
Show 34 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLAYTON, Roger Ward | Secretary | 1995-06-30 | 2002-03-01 |
| WILLISCROFT, John Edwin | Secretary | — | 1995-05-01 |
| ARLINGTON, Michael | Director | 2014-09-08 | 2022-07-14 |
| ASSHETON, Nicholas, The Hon | Director | 2002-01-01 | 2007-12-31 |
| BANSZKY, Caroline Janet | Director | 2018-04-26 | 2024-04-26 |
| BOISSEAU, Francois-Xavier Bernard | Director | 2023-05-05 | 2025-12-31 |
| CARROLL, Timothy Joseph | Director | 2016-04-25 | 2025-12-31 |
| CHAMBERLAIN, Michael Aubrey | Director | 2006-12-05 | 2016-07-13 |
| CHRISTIE, David | Director | 2013-06-20 | 2016-02-08 |
| COOPER, Annette Joy, The Venerable | Director | 2008-04-21 | 2018-07-10 |
| CORNWALL JONES, Mark Ralph | Director | — | 2009-07-23 |
| DAY, Bernard Victor | Director | 1998-01-01 | 2004-01-26 |
| EVANS, Thomas Eric, The Very Reverend | Director | — | 1996-08-17 |
| HARRIS HUGHES, Howell Meirion | Director | 2004-06-10 | 2006-07-20 |
| HART, Harold Fraser | Director | 2004-04-27 | 2014-07-08 |
| HEDGES, Jane Barbara, The Very Revd | Director | 2017-10-17 | 2023-10-17 |
| HOMERSHAM, Susan Barbara Stanhope | Director | 1998-06-25 | 2003-12-31 |
| HUDSON, Stephen Charles | Director | 2016-01-01 | 2023-07-06 |
| LAMPORT, Stephen Mark Jeffrey, Sir | Director | 2020-03-05 | 2024-03-05 |
| LUND, Karen Belinda, Venerable | Director | 2018-04-26 | 2024-03-05 |
| MAGNUS, Laurence Henry Philip, Sir | Director | 2013-06-20 | 2022-07-14 |
| MAWER, Philip John Courtney, Sir | Director | 2010-06-23 | 2019-12-31 |
| MCLINTOCK, Charles Alan, Sir | Director | — | 2003-07-23 |
| MOULDER, Mr Chris | Director | 2019-05-10 | 2023-07-06 |
| SAMUEL, William Meredith, Mr | Director | 2009-09-02 | 2013-01-24 |
| SEALY, Nicholas John Elliot | Director | 2006-06-20 | 2013-07-04 |
| SMART, David Eynon | Director | 2021-03-11 | 2023-05-02 |
| SMITH, Christopher | Director | 2010-01-26 | 2018-07-10 |
| SNELGROVE, Donald George, The Rt Rev | Director | — | 2005-12-06 |
| SPENCER, Victor George, Viscount Churchill | Director | 1994-06-30 | 2006-12-31 |
| STOCK, William Nigel, Bishop | Director | 2006-12-05 | 2016-07-13 |
| WALTON, David Storry | Director | 2019-05-10 | 2019-11-07 |
| WILSON, Denise Pamela | Director | 2010-12-16 | 2018-07-10 |
| YATES, William Hugh | Director | 1997-01-09 | 2011-06-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 207 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-01-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-12-31 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-12-31 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-08-15 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-07-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-05-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-03-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-07-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-05-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-05-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-04-30 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-03-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-03-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-17 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-07-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-07-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-07-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 2
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
+13.7%
£749,149,000 £851,739,000
-
Cash
+4%
£164,222,000 £170,732,000
-
Net assets
+4%
£770,953,000 £801,435,000
-
Employees
+5.7%
2,150 2,273
-
Wages
+24.1%
£124,327,000 £154,270,000
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers