THE CAMBRIDGE CHRYSALIS TRUST

Registered charity 1151614 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE CHRYSALIS TRUST

The Trust's primary activity until 2027 is the accumulation of funds through investment. However, the Trust also considersgrant applications from registered charities. A candidate project will be scored on: (1) degree of match between its objectives and those of the Trust; (2) importance; (3) likelihood of success; (4) strategic value of the grant to the project; and (5) relative cost.

Objects

3 OBJECTS3.1 THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE TRUST FUND UPON TRUST AS TO THE INCOME, AND ALL OR SUCH PART OR PARTS OF THE CAPITAL, AS THE FOUNDER MAY BY NOTICE IN WRITING TO THE TRUSTEES DETERMINE, FOR OR TOWARDS SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES, AND TO MAKE DONATIONS TO SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTION OR INSTITUTIONS, AT SUCH TIME OR TIMES AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE FOUNDER MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BY A LIKE NOTICE DIRECT. WHERE THE FOUNDER HAS NOT, BY 5 APRIL IN THE INCOME TAX YEAR FOLLOWING THAT IN WHICH THE INCOME ARISES, GIVEN A DIRECTION WHICH FULLY DISPOSES OF THE INCOME, THEN SUCH INCOME SHALL BE DISPOSED OF IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUB-CLAUSE.

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity has no significant ongoing costs and anticipates minimal grant activity, with no liabilities reported. The trustees confirm that costs are not expected to exceed expendable resources, supported by a fully invested portfolio that generated a 12.3% total return net of fees in the year.

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 3 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.

• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr CATHRYN JEAN DOWNING PHDchair
• Richard Howard Astle BEM · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PRIMROSE TRUST.

• THE PRIMROSE TRUST income £121k
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• INVESTREAM CHARITABLE TRUST income £153k
• BRAMPTON CHARITABLE TRUST income £101k
• HARMONY WITH NATURE CHARITABLE TRUST income £419k
• CHORTKOV TRUST income £219k

Side by side with its peers

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