VICTORIA CROSS TRUST

Registered charity 1149454 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

1) To clean and care for the graves, memorials and resting places of recipients of the Victoria Cross and their families thereby maintaining and caring for their memory.2) To educate the public in the stories and history behind the recipients of the Victoria Cross thereby maintaining their memory.Supporting our military veteran community and their families as we pursue our charitable aims.

Objects

1) TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN MEMORIALS AND GRAVE MARKERS TO COMMEMORATE THE LIVES OF HOLDERS OF THE VICTORIA CROSS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND FOR POSTERITY TO PERPETUATE THE MEMORY OF THESE BRAVE PEOPLE. 2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AS TO THE LIVES, CITATION DETAILS AND LAST RESTING PLACES OF VICTORIA CROSS HOLDERS BY SUCH MEANS AS THE DIRECTORS MAY DETERMINE.

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

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £13,512 for the year, reducing total funds to £125,970. The trustees report that the charity is 'totally self-sufficient and not reliant on grant funding' due to income from retail outlets. The independent examiner confirmed that no matters came to their attention giving cause to believe the accounts were not prepared in accordance with applicable standards.

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 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
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08143560 · Financial health read from its filings
• Trading subsidiary: VCT TRADING LIMITED Companies House 15968334

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Victoria Cross Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• TOSELAND, Kevin John — director, appointed 23/02/2024on trustee list
• PADDEY, Richard David — director, appointed 31/05/2021on trustee list
• ADAMS, Frances Anne — director, appointed 23/01/2019on trustee list
• LUMLEY, Keith — director, appointed 20/02/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• Frances Adams
• Keith Lumley
• Kevin Toseland
• Richard Paddey · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Australia · Canada · India · Ireland · New Zealand · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).