BELVEDERE TRUST

Registered charity 1078667 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Grant making to organisations.

Objects

TO APPLY THE FUNDS OF THE COMPANY TOWARDS, OR IN FURTHERANCE, OR IN ADVANCEMENT, OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH ONE OR MORE CHARITIES, CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS OR CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION SELECT AND TO UNDERTAKE ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE.

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted funds of £18,443,063, which is above the stated policy target of three to six months' expenditure. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £2,323,680 for the year, driven by a £5,000,000 donation to the Permanent Endowment Fund, although this was offset by significant investment losses. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayers Butterworth LLP. 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03868725
• Trading subsidiary: THE BOX OFFICE NEW INN BROADWAY LIMITED Companies House 11001779 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• LANGRIDGE, Sara Victoria — director, appointed 29/09/2021on trustee list
• GABRIELE, Alexander Robert — director, appointed 16/04/2020on trustee list
• RODITI, James Benjamin Klaber — director, appointed 17/09/2016on trustee list
• VISCOUNT MACKINTOSH OF HALIFAX, John Clive — director, appointed 09/02/2016not on trustee list
• HENE, Lawrence — director, appointed 16/06/2014on trustee list
• CRACKNELL, John David — director, appointed 16/06/2008on trustee list
• CRACKNELL, John — secretary, appointed 31/03/2014

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). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~129.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (82% 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: 4.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Viscount John Clive Mackintosh of Halifaxchair
• Alexander Gabriele
• James Roditi
• John David Cracknell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lawrence Hene
• Pamela Klaber
• Sara Victoria Rose Langridge

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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