THE BEARR TRUST

Registered charity 1011086 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q61930908

The BEARR Trust is a UK-based organisation set up to help children and other vulnerable and disadvantaged groups in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. We believe the best way to do this is to help small civil society organisations (CSOs) working in health and social welfare in the region to build knowledge, know-how, skills and contacts, including with those doing similar work in the UK.

Objects

TO RELIEVE POVERTY,ADVANCE EDUCATION AND PROMOTE SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS ARE IN OR MAY HEREAFTER BE DEEMED BY ENGLISH LAW TO BE CHARITABLE AND IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENARALITY OF THE FOREGOING TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TRAINING WHETHER ACADAMIC OR VOCATIONAL TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE GOOD HEALTH WHETHER PHYSICAL OR MENTAL AND TO RELIEVE AND REHABILITATE PERSONS SUFFERING FROM ANY FORM OF PHYSICAL OR MENTAL HANDICAP IN RUSSIA AND THE REPUBLICS BEING THE TERRITORIES OF THE FORMER UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £8,281 for the year, with total income of £140,621 against expenditure of £132,340. The trustees report that unrestricted reserves of £44,906 exceed their policy target of £20,653, representing more than six months of core expenditure. The filing confirms that sufficient liquid assets exist to meet current obligations and that no material uncertainties threaten the charity's going concern status.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• ROSS EDWARD ROBERT GILLchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• ANN LEWIS CMG · trustee of 1 other charity
• Charles Garrett
• Clare Brooks
• Dr Michael Rasell
• Helen Goodman
• JANET GUNN CMG · trustee of 1 other charity
• MEGAN BICK
• Marcia Levy · trustee of 2 other charities
• NICOLA FRANCES ELIZABETH RAMSDEN
• Sam Thorne

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

Operates in: Armenia · Azerbaijan · Belarus · Georgia · Kazakhstan · Kyrgyzstan · Moldova · Russia · Tajikistan · Turkmenistan · Ukraine · Uzbekistan

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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