PETER STORMONTH DARLING CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1049946 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity donates money, potentially worldwide, to nationally registered charities who work in the areas of medical research, sport and education, conservation and heritage, culture and veterans' support and commemoration. We cannot accept applications by post or by telephone. All electronic submissions will be reviewed but a response may only be given if further information is required.

Objects

(A)FOR OR TOWARDS SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AND TO MAKE DONATIONS TO SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD AT SUCH TIME OR TIMES AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE FOUNDER MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BY A NOTICE DIRECT PROVIDED ALWAYS THAT WHERE THE FOUNDER HAS NOT BY THE 5TH APRIL IN THE INCOME TAX YEAR FOLLOWING THAT IN WHICH THE INCOME ARISES GIVEN A DIRECTION WHICH FULLY DISPOSES OF THE INCOME THEN SUCH INCOME SHALL BE DISPOSED OF IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBCLAUSE (B) (B)SUBJECT TO AND IN DEFAULT OF ANY SUCH DIRECTION AND INSOFAR AS ANY SUCH DIRECTION IS NOT EXHAUSTIVE TO APPLY THE INCOME FOR OR TOWARDS SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AND TO MAKE DONATIONS TO SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTION OR INSTITUTIONS IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD AT SUCH TIME OR TIMES AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT PROVIDED THAT THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FOR THE PERIOD OF 21 YEARS FROM THE DATE OF THIS DEED INSTEAD OF APPLYING THE INCOME OF THE CHARITY IN ANY YEAR ACCUMULATE ALL OR ANY PART OF SUCH INCOME AT COMPOUND INTEREST BY INVESTING THE SAME AND THE RESULTING INCOME IN ANY OF THE AUTHORISED INVESTMENTS AND HOLD THE SAME AS AN ACCRETION TO AND AS PART OF THE CAPITAL OF THE CHARITY WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE RIGHT OF THE TRUSTEES TO APPLY THE WHOLE OR ANY PART OF SUCH ACCUMULATED INCOME IN ANY SUBSEQUENT YEAR AS IF THE SAME WERE INCOME OF THE CHARITY ARISING IN THE THEN CURRENT YEAR.

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bath and North East Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted funds of £6,720,377, derived from an investment portfolio valued at £6,722,701 and cash of £26,076. The trustees report a satisfactory investment gain of approximately 6.8% and confirm that there are no material uncertainties regarding the trust's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Dixon Wilson Audit Services 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting 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

• CANDIS CHRISTA TAYLORchair
• Angus Stormonth Darling
• Dr ELIZABETH IONA COBB
• Frederick David Stewart Rosier · trustee of 2 other charities
• Oliver Justin Cobb

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

Operates in: Canada · China · Croatia · Romania · Scotland · Tanzania · Throughout England · United States

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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Side by side with its peers

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