THE CHILDWICK TRUST

Registered charity 1150413 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NOT APPLICABLE

Grants are given to charities in England to assist adults and children with physical and mental disabilities, the elderly in need, children and adults who are seriously ill. The Trust also supports the welfare of people involved in the horseracing industry. The Trust supports Jewish people in need within the UK. The Trust funds pre-school education projects in South Africa.

Objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED ARE THE PROMOTION OF SUCH PURPOSES BEING EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE INCLUDING:(A) TO ASSIST THE AGED IN NEED INCLUDING THE FORMER EMPLOYEES OF THE SETTLER AND OF COMPANIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE SETTLER AND THE FAMILIES OF SUCH FORMER EMPLOYEES. (B) TO MAKE PAYMENTS TO CHARITIES OR FOR CHARITABLE OBJECTS CONNECTED WITH HORSE RACING OR HORSE BREEDING WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR PEOPLE INVOLVED WITH HORSE RACING OR HORSE BREEDING WHO SHALL BE IN NEED. (C) TO MAKE PAYMENTS TO OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF JEWISH CHARITIES FOR THE PROMOTION OF THE JEWISH FAITH OR SUPPORT OF JEWS IN NEED WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM. (D) TO SUPPORT CHARITIES AND CHARITABLE OBJECTS FOR THE EDUCATION AND BENEFIT OF PEOPLE AND THE FAMILIES OF PEOPLE WHO INTEND TO WORK ARE WORKING OR HAVE WORKED IN THE MINING INDUSTRY IN THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA. (E) TO SUPPORT THE EDUCATION OF PEOPLE RESIDENT IN SOUTH AFRICA AND TO PROVIDE GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS FOR SUCH INDIVIDUALS TO ASSIST THEM IN THEIR EDUCATION WHETHER IN SOUTH AFRICA OR ELSEWHERE. (F) TO MAKE PAYMENTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF CHARITIES WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM FOR THE PROMOTION OF HEALTH AND PARTICULARLY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE DISABLED

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 · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: St Albans, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £83.8 million, which the Trustees consider sufficient and in line with their policy driven by long-term asset protection and a 4% grant distribution target. The charity reported a net asset increase of £1.1 million for the year, supported by a 3.4% rise in investment income to £2.3 million, while grant expenditure decreased slightly to £2.9 million. The Trustees confirm the accounts are prepared on a going concern basis, citing readily realisable investment portfolios to meet future obligations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit 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 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Peter Anwyl–Harris — Chairman (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)

13 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (13 freehold); recorded price paid £2.5m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 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: 38.0% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/01/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• PETER DAVID ANWYL-HARRISchair · trustee of 4 other charities
• Clare Maurice
• Dr ALAN STRANDERS
• MARK PHILIP FARMAR
• Michael John Alexander Fiddes

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

Operates in: South Africa · Throughout England

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 THE ARDWICK TRUST.

• THE ARDWICK TRUST income £101k
• THE ERIC WRIGHT CHARITABLE TRUST income £314.8m
• JOAN WILKINSON CHARITABLE TRUST income £48k
• THE CHILDREN'S TRUST income £36.0m
• THE JULIAN BEWICK EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £247k
• THE SILVERWOOD TRUST income £276k

Side by side with its peers

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