THE D'OYLY CARTE CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1112457 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The advancement of such exclusively charitable objects as the trustees shall from time to time determine in particular (but not limited to) the advancement of the arts, health and medical welfare and environmental protection or improvement.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE OBJECTS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ARTS, HEALTH AND MEDICAL WELFARE AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION OR IMPROVEMENT.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Charity has strong reserves of £67,154,670, which the Trustees consider sufficient to sustain the Charity in the next twelve months and the longer term. The Charity distributes in excess of its income every year and has no income retained as unrestricted funds, relying on investment returns to fund grant-making.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by RSM UK Audit 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Andrew Wimble — Chair of Trustees (source)
• Antonia Brooks — Chair of the Joint Investment Committee (source)
• Henry Freeland — Chair of the Nominations Committee (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)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (100% 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: 17.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/02/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW BOWRING WIMBLEchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Amelia Anne Beringer
• Antonia Faye Brooks · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr MICHAEL DERMOD O'BRIEN MD, FRCP · trustee of 2 other charities
• HENRY JOHN FREELAND RIBA BARCH
• JULIA LESLEY SIBLEY MBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nina Victoria Camilleri
• Professor Frances Anne Flinter · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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Side by side with its peers

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