H C D MEMORIAL FUND

Registered charity 1044956 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Making grants for charitable purposes at home and overseas, primarily towards the relief of human need, and including projects which aim to mitigate the effects of Climate Change

Objects

ALL OR ANY PURPOSES WHICH ARE CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO ENGLISH LAW.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Newcastle upon Tyne, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased from £460,845 to £453,119 during the year, as total resources expended exceeded incoming resources by £7,726. The charity reported no employees and incurred governance costs of £7,207, primarily for legal, tax, and accountancy services. Per the trustees' report, the charity continues to operate without any stated material uncertainties or risks to its 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 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 risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2022 (received 05/05/2023, 5 days after the 30/04/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• BILL FLINNchair
• Camilla Sherman
• JOANNA LEAR
• SUSANNAH DRUMMOND

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

Operates in: Bolivia · Burma · Colombia · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Guatemala · India · Ireland · Israel · Kenya · Lebanon · Malawi · Mexico

Income and spending

Common questions

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 THE MULLION CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE MULLION CHARITABLE TRUST income £45k
• THE LORD COCKFIELD MEMORIAL TRUST income £171k
• THE HETTON CHARITABLE TRUST income £67k
• SERVING HUMANITY FOUNDATION income £228k
• CLIMATE RESPONSE LIMITED income £545k
• BCH TRUST income £237k

Side by side with its peers

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