THE RT HON ELSE COUNTESS BEAUCHAMP DECEASED CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1042208 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COUNTESS BEAUCHAMP CHARITABLE TRUST

The Charity supports The Elmley Foundation, a grantmaking charity for the arts in Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Objects

FOR ALL OR SUCH ONE OR MORE OF THE BENEFICIARIES AT SUCH AGES OR TIMES IN SUCH SHARES AND UPON SUCH TRUSTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE BENEFICIARIES

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: Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net decrease in funds of £64,790 for the year ended 5th April 2025, driven by net losses on investment assets of £86,859. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £2,963,403, with free reserves of £95,431, which the trustees consider appropriate given the reliance on investment income for charitable activities.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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)

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

• DIANA SUSAN JOHNSONchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr Thomas-Leo Richard True · trustee of 1 other charity
• Elmley Francis Dornonville de la Cour · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOHN DE LA COUR · trustee of 1 other charity
• Katherine Forde · trustee of 1 other charity
• SALLY KATRINA LUTON · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Herefordshire · Worcestershire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ELMLEY FOUNDATION.

• THE ELMLEY FOUNDATION income £433k
• CHAPMAN CHARITABLE TRUST income £442k
• H.E.AND E.L.BOTTELEY CHARITY SETTLEMENT income £30k
• HAS TRUST income £52k
• OGLESBY CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.0m
• ELSTREE BOREHAMWOOD AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £359k

Side by side with its peers

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