THE ISLAND TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 1049722 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ISLAND TRUST

To provide and assist in the provision of facilities for recreation in the interests of social welfare and in particular facilities for sailing to persons who have need for such facilities by reason of their social and economic circumstances or their disablement or infirmity with the object of improving the conditions of life of such persons.

Objects

TO PROVIDE AND ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND IN PARTICULAR FOR SAILING TO PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED FOR SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR THEIR DISABLEMENT OR INFIRMITY WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS.

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: Education/training · Amateur Sport · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a net deficit for the year, primarily due to non-cash provisions against loans made to its operating subsidiary. However, the trustees note that excluding these provisions, the trust recorded a small surplus, and cash reserves improved significantly during the year. The trustees are satisfied that the charity is entitled to exemption from audit and have no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03107339
• Trading subsidiary: ISLAND (CUTTER) LIMITED Companies House 05925756

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• FRENCH, Peter Frederick George — director, appointed 02/12/2025on trustee list
• CLEAVES, Christopher Edward — director, appointed 27/02/2020on trustee list
• ARNOLD, Stephen William — director, appointed 13/09/2018on trustee list
• DOBSON, Simon Charles Lindsay — director, appointed 02/10/2014on trustee list
• MACDONALD BROWN, Charters John — director, appointed 01/08/2003on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~11.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/06/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHARTERS JOHN MACDONALD-BROWN
• Christopher Edward Cleaves
• JUDITH MARY LLOYD
• Peter Frederick George French
• SIMON CHARLES LINDSAY DOBSON
• Stephen William Arnold

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BOLTON WANDERERS COMMUNITY TRUST.

• BOLTON WANDERERS COMMUNITY TRUST income £1.5m
• THE RYA FOUNDATION income £224k
• THE ISLAND PROJECT income £1.5m
• THE WHEELYBOAT TRUST income £209k
• ISLE OF WIGHT SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND income £321k
• THE ALBRIGHTON TRUST LIMITED income £146k

Side by side with its peers

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