SWIRE 2765

Registered charity 1150225 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing donations and grants for charitable purposes in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £1,713,692, with the trustees concluding that no reserves need to be retained while the power to accumulate income remains available. The financial position is described as satisfactory, with sufficient cash and investment income to meet committed donations. The charity holds significant invested assets valued at £56,472,015, primarily in shares of John Swire & Sons Limited.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Dixon Wilson Audit Services LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 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: 4.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• BARNABY NICHOLAS SWIRE · trustee of 3 other charities
• Dr CLARE ISACKE
• JOHN SAMUEL SWIRE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kaori Imoto

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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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 JOHN SWIRE 1989 CHARITABLE TRUST.

• JOHN SWIRE 1989 CHARITABLE TRUST income £3.3m
• THE ADRIAN SWIRE CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.9m
• THE SWIRE CHARITABLE TRUST income £7.3m
• Matchroom Charitable Foundation income £1.7m
• THE SINCLAIR CHARITY income £654k
• THE SCS TRUST income £166k

Side by side with its peers

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