ASSIST TRUST

Registered charity 1057772 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total incoming resources increased to £1,421,494 with total expenditure of £1,370,320, resulting in a net movement in funds of £51,174. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £1,097,376, which the charity calculates as approximately 4.3 months of operating expenditure, sitting within its stated policy target of 3 to 6 months. The charity holds significant cash reserves of £685,578 and maintains a positive net asset position of £1,140,075.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Larking Gowen LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Assist Trust Ltd (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Lucy — Head of Services (source)
• Leah — Operations Manager (source)
• Charles — Operations Manager (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).

• Alan Boswell Group Charitable Trust — “From April 2024 – 2025 Alan Boswell Group Charitable Trust” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

7 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £749k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% 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: 0.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Claire Hopkins
• Claire Sewell
• Estelle Corner
• James Tremlett
• Matthew Nicholas Langley
• Paul Corney
• Rachael Morris
• Robert Holderness

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

Operates in: Norfolk

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Side by side with its peers

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