NINETEEN EIGHTY NINE CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1123672 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Trust made a number of grants to other charitable causes.

Objects

1 TO RELIEVE POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD AND 2 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF PERSONS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY DISABLED PERSONS, FOR THE PUBLIC THROUGHOUT THE WORLD OR3 TO PROVIDE PRACTICAL OR FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS ESTABLISHED TO FURTHER THESE OBJECTS OR ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DETERMINE FROM TIME TO TIME.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE 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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The trust holds unrestricted reserves of £2,442,913, which significantly exceed its stated policy target of maintaining sufficient reserves to meet grant commitments for the coming two years. The charity generated total income of £3,039,855, primarily from donations, and incurred charitable expenditure of £1,000,020, resulting in a net increase in funds. The trustees and auditor confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the trust'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 Rouse 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~29.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• NIGEL MARTIN WOOF
• SALLY ISABEL WOOF

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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• THE NINESQUARE TRUST income £223k
• M I CHARITABLE TRUST income £21k
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• THE 4814 TRUST income £2.3m
• THE CUNMONT CHARITABLE TRUST income £2.4m
• THE CHARTERHOUSE CHARITABLE TRUST income £58k

Side by side with its peers

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