QUARTET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1080418 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GREATER BRISTOL FOUNDATION, HIGH SHERIFF'S FUND (BRISTOL)

Quartet Community Foundation manages and distributes charitable funds to meet local needs on behalf of individuals, companies, families and other organisations, working across Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire to connect local causes and charities with donors.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a total income of £13.8 million and distributed £5.1 million in grants, resulting in a modest surplus. The trustees confirm the charity is a going concern, noting that free reserves of £1.37 million are well within the stated policy target of up to nine months of operating costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bishop Fleming Audit Limited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Quartet Community Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Lucy Saunders — Director (source)
• Sue Mountstevens OBE — Chair (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles 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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 6.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/10/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/10/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/04/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Susan Anne Mountstevens OBEchair
• Abdulhamid Sheikh
• Daniel Richard Wood · trustee of 1 other charity
• Diane Joy Robinson
• Edward Christopher Thompson
• Edward Sion Lutley
• Ella Roshin Patel
• Lauren Elizabeth Couch
• Lee John Dineen
• Matthew Crossman
• Matthew Lee
• Nicholas Lee
• Oliver Delany OBE
• Richard Nicholas Tredwin · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Bristol City · North Somerset · South Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SOMERSET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.

• SOMERSET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £5.6m
• KENT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £5.5m
• ONE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LIMITED income £1.5m
• THE SUSSEX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £3.6m
• BRADFORD DISTRICT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £618k
• THE QUILTER FOUNDATION income £671k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.