THE VENIK TRUST

Registered charity 1063185 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing assistance to children and adults in need.

Objects

A) THE RELIEF OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS WITH FACIAL DISFIGUREMENT AND OTHER DISABILITIES; ANDB) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF PARENTS AND OTHER PERSONS IN ACCEPTANCE OF THOSE CONDITIONS, IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION, PARTICULARLY THOSE IN ORPHANAGES AND GENERALLY THOSE IN NEED ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD BY SUCH MEANS AS IS CHARITABLE

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: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Chichester, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £2,576,721 at the end of the year, an increase from the previous year's £2,484,736. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with no material debt reported. The charity generated total income of £938,401, primarily from donations and investment returns, while charitable expenditure totaled £920,119.

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 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 handling
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/11/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~33.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (81% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• RODNEY GUY SEDDONchair
• Charlotte d'Auvergne Venter
• Dr Claudia Loreto Seddon
• Dr Valeria Carmen Munoz Lorenzo
• Harriet-May Joanna Saddington
• VALERIE SEDDON · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Chile · Italy · Throughout England · Ukraine

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with VINECHURCH LONDON.

• VINECHURCH LONDON income £189k
• PENINIM CHARITY TRUST income £319k
• VINE BRANCH MINISTRIES income £101k
• THE VANNECK CHARITABLE TRUST income £70k
• THE 4814 TRUST income £2.3m
• THE CORNELIUS TRUST income £38k

Side by side with its peers

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