CHEM TRUST

Registered charity 1118182 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q122473668 · also known as CHEMICALS HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT MONITORING TRUST

CHEM Trust works to protect humans and wildlife from harmful chemicals CHEM Trust's vision is a world where humans and wildlife co-exist with a sustainable chemical industry, and where chemicals play no part in causing impaired reproduction, deformities, disease, or deficits in neurological function.

Objects

OBJECTS 3. THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO PURSUE ALL OBJECTS WHICH ARE REGARDED AS EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES FROM TIME TO TIME INCLUDING:3.1 TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT FROM THE EFFECTS OF NOXIOUS CHEMICALS;3.2 TO PROMOTE RESEARCH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT ABOUT THE EFFECTS OF CHEMICALS ON HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT AND TO DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF.

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: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · 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 CHEM Trust reported a surplus of £28,220 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income increasing by 12% to £1,479,888. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £1,110,193, which the trustees consider to be within their stated policy of maintaining 8–10 months of expenditure. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £60,001 - £70,000 (FY2024) to £60,000 - £69,999 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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 05933897

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.

• YOXEN, Rachel Louise — director, appointed 27/09/2024on trustee list
• DAVIS, Catherine Lucy — director, appointed 27/09/2024on trustee list
• LANE, Geoffrey — director, appointed 27/09/2024on trustee list
• SHARPLES, Lisa Marie — director, appointed 27/09/2024on trustee list
• WALTON, Joanna Claire — director, appointed 27/09/2024on trustee list
• WRIGHT, Andrew Phillip — director, appointed 27/09/2024on trustee list
• DARCY, Sharon Helen — director, appointed 22/12/2023on trustee list
• SIMKINS, Gareth — director, appointed 30/11/2023on trustee list
• RODRIGO JANARIZ, Ariadna — director, appointed 15/09/2022not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~9.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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: 12.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Philip Wright
• Ariadna Rodrigo Janariz
• Catherine Lucy Davis
• Gareth Simkins · trustee of 1 other charity
• Geoffrey Lane
• Joanna Claire Walton
• Lisa Marie Sharples
• Mike Walker
• Rachel Louise Yoxen
• Saskia van Bergen
• Sharon Helen Darcy

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

Operates in: Austria · Belgium · Bulgaria · Croatia · Cyprus · Czech Republic · Denmark · Estonia · Finland · France · Germany · Greece

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THAMES CHASE TRUST.

• THAMES CHASE TRUST income £1.5m
• CONTROLLING CHEMSEX income £125k
• REAL FARMING TRUST income £930k
• THE INSTITUTION OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS income £10.6m
• THE ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY TRUST FUND income £350k
• CHEMICAL ENGINEERS BENEVOLENT FUND income £82k

Side by side with its peers

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