QUARTET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

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

Financial health, per its FY2023 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated an operating surplus and increased its associated reserves to almost £1.3m, covering its costs for the year. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds significant endowment funds valued at £59.2m, which provide a sustainable financial base and cover a substantial portion of future budgetary expenditure.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bishop Fleming LLP.

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.

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).

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

• Susan Anne Mountstevens OBEchair
• Abdulhamid Sheikh
• Daniel Richard Wood
• 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

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

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