THE SEDBURY TRUST

Registered charity 1012875 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SEDBURY EDUCATIONAL TRUST

To support children in need in Gloucestershire

Objects

IN FURTHERENCE OF THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF (1)ANY CHILD OR YOUNG PERSON WHO IS OR AT ANY TIME HAS BEEN IN THE CARE OF,OR PROVIDED WITH ACCOMODATION BY,OR UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE COUNTY COUNCIL (2) ANY CHILDREN OR YOUNG PERSON IN NEED WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 171(10) OF THE CHILDREN ACT 1989

Area of benefit: PRIMARILY THE COUNTY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE

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

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cotswold, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The Sedbury Trust holds unrestricted free reserves of £5,341,806, which exceeds its stated policy target of a £5 million fund. The charity reported a net outgoing resource of £90,543 before investment gains, but recorded significant investment gains of £371,702, resulting in a net increase in funds of £281,159 for the year. The accounts state there are no material uncertainties regarding the Trust's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Hazlewoods LLP. 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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Elizabeth Poulton
• Robert Bromberg
• Sarah Frances Walker

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BUTTERCUP CHILDREN'S TRUST.

• BUTTERCUP CHILDREN'S TRUST income £53k
• THE SEDBERGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £999k
• PETER CADBURY CHARITABLE TRUST income £38k
• DEWSBURY WELFARE TRUST income £1.4m
• THE SCS TRUST income £594k
• SEEDFIELD TRUST income £111k

Side by side with its peers

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