THE ALISON HILLMAN CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1040855 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ALISON HILLMAN CHARITABLE TRUST

The charity provides donations to organisations and other charities that support:1. The promotion and encouragement of research into the causes, prevention and treatment of epilepsy2. The alleviation of suffering from epilepsy and the provision of care, treatment and support for those suffering from epilepsy and their families3. Such other local charitable purposes as the trustees determine

Objects

(1) THE PROMOTION AND ENCOURAGEMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF RESEARCH INTO ALL MATTERS CONNECTED WITH OR BEARING UPON THE CAUSES PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF EPILEPSY IN ALL FORMS (2) THE ALLEVIATION OF SUFFERING OCCASIONED BY EPILEPSY AND THE PROVISION OF CARE TREATMENT AND SUPPORT FOR PERSONS SUFFERING FROM EPILEPSY AND THEIR FAMILIES AND DEPENDANTS (3) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE

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: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted funds totaling £14,050,469, which the Trustees consider sufficient to enable the charity to operate at its current level for the foreseeable future. The charity reported a net expenditure of £21,887 for the year, primarily due to charitable grants made, but maintains adequate resources to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by FWC Advisory Ltd. 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £525k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2025)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (100% 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: 57.6% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW FISHER · trustee of 1 other charity
• CLARE WISHART
• IAN GEORGE HUMPHREY · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with EPILEPSY SOCIETY.

• EPILEPSY SOCIETY income £20.7m
• THE ANNE AND JOHN WALTERS CHARITABLE TRUST income £334k
• BERGQVIST CHARITABLE TRUST income £40k
• SPIELMAN CHARITABLE TRUST income £241k
• THE ARCHIE SHERMAN CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.3m
• THOMAS HICKMAN'S CHARITY income £980k

Side by side with its peers

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