COLWINSTON CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1049189 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q139546665

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.

Objects

THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE TRUST FUND AND ITS INCOME UPON TRUST TO APPLY THEM FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED -- IN PRACTICE CARDIFF

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

Registered contact address: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 4 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 05/03/2025, 33 days after the 31/01/2025 due date); year ending 31/03/2023 (received 19/02/2024, 19 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 20/02/2023, 20 days after the 31/01/2023 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 11/02/2022, 11 days after the 31/01/2022 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.

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 4.7 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 (5.3%) (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

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Charities like this

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• THE MEGAN GWYNNE-JONES CHARITABLE TRUST income £58k
• THE ROSS WARBURTON CHARITABLE TRUST income £2.6m
• WOOLSTORE COUNTRY THEATRE income £49k
• THE BOLTINI TRUST income £669k
• THE HAWORTH CHARITABLE TRUST income £147k
• THEATRE DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £434k

Side by side with its peers

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