THE DAVID SNOWDON TRUST

Registered charity 1078527 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The objects are to advance the education of the public, particularly in the arts, to the relief of poverty and, to the relief of suffering, including medical research.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £7,108,379, supported by a net income of £600,263 which included significant investment gains. The trustees maintain a policy of distributing the majority of annual income while retaining capital, and the auditors confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity'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 A | Cherry Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Armitt Trust — “Credit: The Armitt Trust” (source page)

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

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

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% 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: 1.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/04/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (18/11/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• John Frederick Douglas McMillanchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher Jackson Malpas
• Clive Wilson
• Dr RUTH MARGARET CAYTON
• Michael Stephen Bult
• Robert Stuart Jackson
• Stuart Gerrard Allison stuart

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

Operates in: Cumbria

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SIR DONALD AND LADY EDNA WILSON CHARITABLE TRUST.

• SIR DONALD AND LADY EDNA WILSON CHARITABLE TRUST income £513k
• DAVID & RUTH LEWIS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST income £4.6m
• THE DONALD GORDON SECOND FOUNDATION income £3.2m
• THE GUY AND ELINOR MEYNELL CHARITABLE TRUST income £373k
• DAWAT-E-HADIYAH TRUST (UNITED KINGDOM) income £44.1m
• J N DERBYSHIRE TRUST income £146k

Side by side with its peers

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