THE DULVERTON TRUST

Registered charity 1146484 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Dulverton Trust is an independent grant-making Trust founded by Lord Dulverton in 1949. The Trust supports national and regional charities operating in England, Scotland and Wales, excluding charities primarily for the benefit of residents of London. Some grants are given to UK charities operating in East Africa. The Trust incorporated in 2012 (unincorporated no. 206426).

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the Trust holds unrestricted funds of £121.5m and free reserves of £117.8m, noting that the whole investment portfolio could act as a reserve. The Trustees set an annual spending target based on a three-year rolling average of the portfolio to preserve its long-term real value, and the audit confirms there are no material uncertainties regarding the Trust's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2025) → 1 (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Christopher Wills — Chairman (source)
• Binda Patel — Director (source)
• Emma Stanger — Finance Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

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: 30.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/06/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHRISTOPHER WILLSchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dame Mary Richardson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Laura Wills
• RICHARD ANDREW FITZALAN HOWARD
• Robert Anthony Hamilton Wills
• SIR MALCOLM LESLIE RIFKIND
• TARA JOHN DOUGLAS-HOME · trustee of 2 other charities
• THE LORD DULVERTON · trustee of 1 other charity
• THE LORD HEMPHILL

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

Operates in: Kenya · Scotland · Uganda

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE'S CHARITABLE TRUST.

• DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE'S CHARITABLE TRUST income £256k
• THE W E DUNN TRUST income £238k
• THE DUNCREGGAN TRUST income £107k
• THE DORSET HEALTH TRUST LIMITED income £187k
• THE TUDOR TRUST income £8.5m
• THE UDLINGTON TRUST income £312k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.