THORNTON-SMITH AND PLEVINS TRUST

Registered charity 1137196 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THORNTON-SMITH AND PLEVINS TRUSTS

Making of educational grants to young people, generally in the age range 16-19, who are in distressed circumstances.

Objects

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Area of benefit: SEE INDIVIDUAL CONSTITUENTS

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £20,508,436, driven by significant investment gains of £1,653,877 which offset a net operational deficit. Unrestricted reserves stood at £19,438,531, providing substantial liquidity relative to the charity's annual expenditure of £763,455. The trustees report that the charity is dependent on investment income and has no material uncertainties regarding its 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 Mercer & Hole LLP. 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.

• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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.

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 31/07/2024 (received 21/10/2025, 143 days after the 31/05/2025 due date); year ending 31/07/2023 (received 25/03/2025, 298 days after the 31/05/2024 due date); year ending 31/07/2021 (received 31/03/2023, 304 days after the 31/05/2022 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

• Martin Robin Graychair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Charles Sydney Fowle
• Charles William Smyth-Osbourne
• FIONA ELSIE TENNICK
• Flora Lyon · trustee of 2 other charities
• Martin Anthony Cranmer Humphreys

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THETFORD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION TRUST.

• THETFORD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION TRUST income £79k
• TEACHERS GROUP EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £179k
• PENNTHORPE SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £3.9m
• EDWIN JOHN THOMPSON MEMORIAL FUND income £34k
• TENDRING DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £96k
• THE TAVENER CHARITABLE TRUST income £36k

Side by side with its peers

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