COLWINSTON CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1049189 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Trust distributes grants to UK Registered Charities working predominantly in the areas of Opera, Music and the Visual Arts, and library and archive projects in Wales. The Trust seeks to sustain and support high quality artistic activities that add to the cultural life and experiences available in the UK, especially in Wales where over 80% of its grants are directed.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted free reserves of £972,071 and total funds of £2,383,508, which the Trustees consider sufficient to meet all current charitable commitments. The charity's income is derived primarily from royalties related to 'The Mousetrap' play, and the Trustees have designated £1,000,000 for the Trust's 30th anniversary celebrations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Rawlinson & Hunter Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mathew Prichard — Chairman (source)
• Mathew C T Prichard — Chairman (source)
• Lucinda M Prichard — Vice Chair (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• London production of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap — “Funded through royalties received from the London production of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap , the Trust meets twice yearly to consider a…” (source page)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~23.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• MATHEW CARADOC THOMAS PRICHARD CBE DLchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Caradoc Prichard
• Lucinda Mary Prichard
• MARTIN PATRICK TINNEY
• Rebecca Anne Evans CBE
• Sian Llinos Williams · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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 CONWY ARTS TRUST.

• THE CONWY ARTS TRUST income £149k
• THE GUY AND ELINOR MEYNELL CHARITABLE TRUST income £373k
• Cotswolds Arts Through Schools income £581k
• STIWT ARTS TRUST LIMITED income £274k
• CHAPMAN CHARITABLE TRUST income £443k
• THE BOLTINI TRUST income £669k

Side by side with its peers

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