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.

Objects

I] TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, PARTICULARLY IN THE ARTSII] TO THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, PARTICULARLY IN THE ARTSIII] TO THE RELIEF OF SUFFERING, INCLUDING MEDICAL RESEARCH

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 · 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

Registered contact address: Westmorland and Furness, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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 (3.2%) (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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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SNOWDON TRUST.

• SNOWDON TRUST income £871k
• THE ARDWICK TRUST income £101k
• THE ALBERT DAWSON EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £119k
• SIR DONALD AND LADY EDNA WILSON CHARITABLE TRUST income £297k
• DAVID SOLOMONS CHARITABLE TRUST income £80k
• THE STEVENSON FAMILY'S CHARITABLE TRUST income £397k

Side by side with its peers

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