THE ERIC TWINAME TRUST

Registered charity 1002313 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ERIC TWINAME MEMORIAL TRUST

To give financial assistance towards the organisation of events & facilities which will enable & encourage pupils of schools & universities in the UK to participate in activities associated with sailing. To assist in the provision of boats & sailing equipment for such pupils, to provide bursaries for disadvantaged youngsters to enable them to pursue sailing activities, provision of coach boats.

Objects

TO ORGANISE, PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE ORGANISATION AND PROVISION OF FACILITIES WHICH WILL ENABLE AND ENCOURAGE PUPILS OF SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM TO SAIL OR YACHT RACE OR TO PARTICIPATE IN NAY ACTIVITY ASSOCIATED SOLELY WITH YACHTING THEREBY TO ASSIST IN ENSURING THAT DUE ATTENTION IS GIVEN TO THE PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF SUCH PUPILS AS WELL AS TO THE DEVELOPMENT AND OCCUPATION OF THEIR MINDS.

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: Education/training · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kingston upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's net assets decreased from £760,018 to £763,314 (including investments) over the year, with unrestricted cash funds declining from £475,060 to £438,290. The trustees' report indicates a reserves policy aimed at maintaining up to seven years of planned expenditure, though no specific monetary target is defined. The charity relies on investment income and donations to fund its activities, with no disclosed pension deficits or trading subsidiaries.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Eric Twiname Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• PETER THOMAS WHIPPchair
• CHRISTOPHER JOHN REED
• DUNCAN IAN TRUSWELL · trustee of 1 other charity
• JAMES JOHN RAFFERTY KIRKPATRICK
• Jonathan David Denwood
• Naomi Smith
• PETER BRUCE AITKEN

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ERIC FRANK TRUST.

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• THRIVE TOGETHER BIRMINGHAM income £695k

Side by side with its peers

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