FRANCON TRUST

Registered charity 1003592 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Financial support for school examination high achievers but limited financial resources, from London, to attend first degree courses in subjects related to careers in accountancy, medicine, engineering and similar professions. Applications, supported by head teachers, are required nine months before attendance at university. A brief letter should be sent initially. There is an application process.

Objects

(A)THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF GRANTS TO STUDENTS IN NEED. (B)THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS ANS DISTRESS AMONG STUDENTS IN NEED.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED, BUT IN PRACTICE GREATER LONDON

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Rochdale, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £1,412,544, which exceeds its forward commitments for the upcoming year. The trustees report no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, supported by professionally managed investments and a cautious approach to expenditure.

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 3 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
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANN-MARIE JEFFERYS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anne Elizabeth Holden · trustee of 1 other charity
• PROFESSOR JOE HERZBERG
• Peter Reginald Allcard
• TERRY NEMKO JP FCA

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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• FRANCIS BANCROFT'S TRUST income £179k

Side by side with its peers

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