THE SYDER FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1119373 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Syder Foundation is a grant-making trust, primarily focused on domestic charities within Berkshire and nearby counties.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY IS TO ADVANCE, PROMOTE, OR CARRY OUT ANY LAWFUL CHARITABLE PURPOSE AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £19,982,640, which the Trustees consider sufficient to generate annual income between £300,000 and £500,000. The charity reported a net income of £982,193 for the year, driven by investment gains, and holds no restricted or permanent endowment funds. The independent auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified 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 Banks & Co Limited. Discloses 5 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHARLOTTE SYDER
• TIMOTHY DOMINIC JAMES SYDER

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

Operates in: Bracknell Forest · Buckinghamshire · Hampshire · Oxfordshire · Reading · Surrey · West Berkshire · Wiltshire · Windsor And Maidenhead · Wokingham

Income and spending

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• THE CEDARS TRUST income £19k
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• THE TUDOR PRITCHARD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £55k
• THE SEDBURY TRUST income £144k
• SOMERSET NHS FOUNDATION TRUST CHARITABLE FUNDS income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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