HELIOS TRUST

Registered charity 1059302 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Support the medical and therapeutic services not provided by the NHS, the use of anthroposophical medicines and therapeutic techniques.Establish and promote workshops, study groups and self-help groups at the Centre for sufferers of various physical and mental illnesses.Offer a full range of therapies to the North West Bristol Primary Care Group.Establish and maintain bursary funds.

Objects

PREVENTING AND RELIEVING SICKNESS AND OF PROMOTING HEALTH WITHIN THE COMMUNITY THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT AND APPROACH TO MEDICINE AND USING THE PRINCIPLES OF ANTHROPOSOPHICAL MEDICINE AND IN FURTHERANCE OF THE OBJECTS TO FOSTER, PARTICIPATE IN AND PROMOTE OTHER ACTIVITIES LISTED AS OBJECTS IN SO FAR AS THE SAME ARE CHARITABLE PROVIDED THAT THE CHARITY SHALL AIM AT PROVIDING ALL SUCH MEDICAL SERVICES ON A BASIS OF NEED REGARDLESS OF FINANCIAL IMPOVERISHMENT, SEX OR RACE.

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: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £58,322 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total incoming resources of £94,578 against expenditure of £36,256. Total charity funds increased to £638,189, supported by a freehold property valued at £728,000 net of depreciation. The trustees and auditors confirmed the financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bronsens. 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03270088

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.

• GRATTON, Tara Alexandra — director, appointed 05/05/2022on trustee list
• PINNIGER, Roland — director, appointed 05/05/2022on trustee list
• GORDON, Aonghus Coinn Huntly — director, appointed 05/05/2022on trustee list
• CLEMENTS, Ian Keith — director, appointed 05/05/2022on trustee list
• GRIFFITHS, Vivian Frederick Blenheim — director, appointed 05/05/2022not on trustee list
• KIPPAX, Helen Margaret — director, appointed 05/05/2022on trustee list
• FEDER, Gene Solomon, Professor — director, appointed 15/05/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £386k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Aonghus Coinn Huntly Gordon · trustee of 8 other charities
• Gene Feder Professor · trustee of 2 other charities
• Helen Kippax
• Ian Clements · trustee of 5 other charities
• Roland Pinniger
• Tara Alexandra Gratton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Vivien Griffiths

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

Operates in: Bristol City

Income and spending

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