ANGLIAN COMMUNITY TRUST (ACT)

Registered charity 1154746 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Anglian Community Trust is a charity that provides funding to support community and charity projects, through one-off funding.Its aims are:To promote and protect the social, mental and physical health, welfare and wellbeing of people in the community of North East Essex and surrounding areas. It will also fundraise with local community and/or charitable groups and accept donations.

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Latest income

£139k

Latest spending

£55k

Registered

2013

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased from £2,366,539 to £2,521,241 during the year, driven by net income of £154,702. The charity holds £2,304,567 in investments and reports no current liabilities other than a minor £310 creditor balance. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to attention during the examination of the accounts.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Related-party transaction: Frank Sims, a trustee of ACT was the CEO of ACE who donated the £2,317,000 to ACT but has no personal interest in this transaction.

“Frank Sims, a trustee of ACT was the CEO of ACE who donated the £2,317,000 to ACT but has no personal interest in this transaction.” — page 8

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2022)

Total income

£2.3m

Total spending

£20k

Reserves (reported)

£2.3m

Employees

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Michael Pollingtonchair
Dr David William Sollis
Frank Sims
Julie Young · trustee of 1 other charity
Kay Caines
Michael Andrew Gill

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

Operates in: Essex · Southend-on-sea · Suffolk

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£139k	£55k
31/03/2024	£11k	£41k
31/03/2023	£536	£28k
31/03/2022	£2.3m	£20k
31/03/2021	£5	£56k

Common questions

Is ANGLIAN COMMUNITY TRUST (ACT) financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased from £2,366,539 to £2,521,241 during the year, driven by net income of £154,702. The charity holds £2,304,567 in investments and reports no current liabilities other than a minor £310 creditor balance. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to attention during the examination of the accounts. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE DULVERTON TRUST	1	£259k
THE ESSEX AND SOUTHEND SPORTS TRUST	1	£135k
JOHN LAING CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£89k
THE FRANK LITCHFIELD GENERAL CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£51k
The Connolly Foundation (UK) Limited	1	£20k
THE JOSEPH AND LILIAN SULLY FOUNDATION	1	£20k
BEDFORDSHIRE AND LUTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	1	£15k
UTURN4SUPPORT	1	£14k

Charities like this

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

THE ANSTICE COMMUNITY TRUST income £381k
AYLSHAM AND DISTRICT CARE TRUST income £563k
ANGEL TRUST - A CHARITY FOR THE PEOPLE income £944k
ANGLIA CARE TRUST income £6.0m
THE AYLSHAM COMMUNITY TRUST (FAMILIES) income £75k
ACT (AFRICAN CHILD TRUST) income £204k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
ANGLIAN COMMUNITY TRUST (ACT)	£139k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE ANSTICE COMMUNITY TRUST FY2025	£381k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
AYLSHAM AND DISTRICT CARE TRUST FY2025	£563k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
ANGEL TRUST - A CHARITY FOR THE PEOPLE FY2025	£944k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
ANGLIA CARE TRUST FY2025	£6.0m	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE AYLSHAM COMMUNITY TRUST (FAMILIES) FY2024	£75k	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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