THE ADVENT CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1122385 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Grant making activities

Objects

(1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.(2) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND DISTRESS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND AND WORLD-WIDE AND(3) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES WORLD-WIDE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DETERMINE AT SUCH TIME OR TIMES AND IN SUCH PROPORTIONS AND SUCH MANNER AND SUBJECT TO SUCH TERMS AND CONDITIONS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT PROVIDED THAT THE TRUSTEES MAY AT THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DURING THE PERIOD OF TWENTY-ONE YEARS FROM THE DATE OF THIS SETTLEMENT INSTEAD OF APPLYING THE INCOME OF THE TRUST FUND IN ANY YEAR ACCUMULATE ALL OR ANY PART OF SUCH INCOME AT COMPOUND INTEREST BY INVESTING THE SAME AND THE RESULTING INCOME IN ANY OF THE INVESTMENTS AUTHORISED BY THIS SETTLEMENT OR BY LAW AND HOLDING THE SAME AS AN ACCRETION TO AND AS PART OF THE CAPITAL OF THE TRUST FUND WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THEIR RIGHT TO APPLY THE WHOLE OR ANY PART OF SUCH ACCUMULATED INCOME IN ANY SUBSEQUENT YEAR AS IF THE SAME WERE INCOME OF THE TRUST FUND ARISING IN THE THEN CURRENT YEAR.

Area of benefit: ENGLAND AND WALES

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

Per the independent examiner's report, no matters have come to attention that suggest the accounting records or accounts fail to meet statutory requirements. The examiner confirms that the accounts accord with the records and comply with the Charities Act 2011 and relevant regulations, indicating no identified financial irregularities or control failures in this filing.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 2 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.

• Internal charity financial controls 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 05/04/2025 (received 24/02/2026, 19 days after the 05/02/2026 due date); year ending 05/04/2024 (received 16/04/2025, 70 days after the 05/02/2025 due date); year ending 05/04/2023 (received 06/02/2024, 1 day after the 05/02/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• FIONA JANE LINDSAY GREEN
• Paul David Hunston · trustee of 3 other charities
• STEPHEN MILES CHURCHILL GREEN · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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