WILLIAM ROWAN HAMILTON TRUST

Registered charity 1150524 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HAMILTON TRUST/ WRHT

Principal activities: supporting education, particularly pre-school and primary, and charitable endeavours more generally

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO SUPPORT SUCH CHARITY OR CHARITIES OR FOR SUCH LEGALLY CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO ADVANCING EDUCATION.

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £1,699,738, which comfortably exceeds the trustees' stated policy threshold based on forecast expenditure. The trustees consider the Trust to have a healthy overall credit balance and view it as prudent to retain substantial reserves to support future grant-making objectives.

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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08269877

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.

• BROOKS, Kenneth Williams — director, appointed 26/10/2012on trustee list
• MCMILLAN, Gordon James — director, appointed 26/10/2012on trustee list
• O'REGAN, Elizabeth Jane Sarah — director, appointed 26/10/2012on trustee list
• O'REGAN, Michael Rowan Hamilton John — director, appointed 26/10/2012not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/10/2022)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (59% 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: 2.0% of total income.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/10/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Michael Rowan Hamilton John O'Regan OBEchair
• JAMES MCMILLAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• JANE O'REGAN
• Kenneth Williams Brooks · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Ireland · Northern Ireland · Scotland

Income and spending

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