THE FAIRFIELD CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1124356 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Making grants as determined by its trustees.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME IN THEIR DISCRETION DETERMINE AND THE TRUSTEES SHALL APPLY THE INCOME OF THE ASSETS UNDER THEIR CONTROL AND MAY APPLY THE WHOLE OR ANY PART OR PARTS OF THE CAPITAL OF SUCH ASSETS IN FURTHERANCE OF THE OBJECTS.

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that net assets increased to £25,317,853 due to a rise in the value of investments, while total income decreased slightly to £667,111. The charity holds significant liquid reserves of £1,565,682, which exceeds the trustees' stated target of at least £750,000, providing flexibility for emergency payments. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Albert Goodman 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.

• 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
• 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

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: 17.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Frances Jennifer Acland-Hood Andrews
• John Acland-Hood · trustee of 1 other charity
• Peter Lewis Wyman
• Peter Richard John Spear
• Susan Andrews

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE FIELDROSE CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE FIELDROSE CHARITABLE TRUST income £325k
• THE FRANK LITCHFIELD GENERAL CHARITABLE TRUST income £192k
• THE SEVERFIELD FOUNDATION income £88k
• THE FRESHFIELD FOUNDATION income £925k
• THE MAYFIELD TRUST income £5.1m
• THE FAIRFIELD CHARITABLE TRUST income £149k

Side by side with its peers

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