THE BROWNSWORD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1012615 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Predominantly focused on the Bath areaChildren and Young PeopleThe ArtsThe ElderlyCommunity and Neighbourhood workPhysical and Learning DisabilitiesEducational projectsMedical Projects

Objects

FOR OR TOWARDS SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AND TO MAKE DONATIONS TO SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTION OR INSTITUTIONS AT SUCH TIME OR TIMES AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT

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.

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Registered contact address: Bath and North East Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted free reserves of £950,677 and total net assets of £11,198,044. However, the auditors have identified a material uncertainty regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern in its current legal structure due to an ongoing transfer of assets and activities to another charity. Despite this potential dissolution, the trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Auditco Limited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → material uncertainty (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~47.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (75% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 26.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW DOUGLAS BROWNSWORDchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Alessandra Brownsword-Matthews · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr Nicole Lyn Howse · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset

Income and spending

Common questions

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• THE BRUNSWICK TOWN CHARITABLE TRUST income £78k
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• THE BOWLAND CHARITABLE TRUST income £84k
• THE BASIL BROWN CHARITABLE TRUST income £81k
• THE R S BROWNLESS CHARITABLE TRUST income £44k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.