MICHAEL GUEST CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1154653 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity supports the works of other UK registered charities by the making of donations or grants.

Objects

TO PROMOTE SUCH PURPOSES THAT ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE IN PARTICULAR BY SUPPORTING THE WORKS OF OTHER REGISTERED CHARITIES BY THE MAKING OF DONATIONS OR GRANTS FROM INCOME AND CAPITAL AVAILABLE FOR DISTRIBUTION.

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

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Registered contact address: North Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity's unrestricted funds are in a deficit of £23,631, primarily due to the recognition of multi-year grant commitments. However, the charity holds significant expendable endowment funds of £6,150,557, which the trustees can draw upon at their discretion. The trustees consider the holding of unrestricted reserves unnecessary given this flexibility and anticipate a significant increase in investment income in future years.

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 4 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 26/02/2026, 26 days after the 31/01/2026 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 12/12/2023, 315 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Hannah Shepherdchair
• Charles Marment · trustee of 2 other charities
• Kathryn Denise Walshaw
• Lydia Marie Shepherd
• Susana Patten

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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• THE MICHAEL MARSH CHARITABLE TRUST income £113k
• MILLWARD CHARITABLE TRUST income £47k
• THE MASTER CHARITABLE TRUST income £155.3m
• THE GERALD MICKLEM CHARITABLE TRUST income £503k
• M O CHARITABLE TRUST income £146k
• THE MITCHELL CHARITABLE TRUST income £40k

Side by side with its peers

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