BRIAN MURTAGH CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1105099 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We are a family trust which makes grants to small charitable organisations with an income below £300,000. We support children & young adults UK and worldwide in the areas of physical & learning disabilities, social disadvantage, education, poverty, sickness & trauma. We aim to support small charities and enable them to grow. All applications must be made through our online website.

Objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE OBJECTS AND PURPOSES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR DISCRETION THINK FIT

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cornwall, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity remains in a strong financial position with unrestricted funds totaling £5,448,422 as of 31 January 2025, an increase from the previous year. The charity does not employ any staff and incurs no fundraising costs, directing maximum resources to grant-making activities. The trustees confirm that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cannon Williamson. 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/01/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (55% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Benjamin Rencherchair
• Elliott Duke
• Emily Sequeira
• Peter Sequeira

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

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 THE JONGEN CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE JONGEN CHARITABLE TRUST income £22.3m
• ROWAN BENTALL CHARITABLE TRUST ( R11 ) income £82k
• THE BROUGHTON FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST income £225k
• THE BIRSHAN CHARITABLE TRUST income £68k
• THE PURCHAS CHARITABLE TRUST income £10k
• ROBERT ARMITAGE CHARITABLE TRUST income £48k

Side by side with its peers

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