ASPEN TRUST

Registered charity 1159686 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Trustees have resolved to give preference to such charities that Sir Martin and Lady Wood have been closely involved with in the past

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held total funds of £3,465,821 at the year-end, representing a net decrease from the previous year's £4,641,233. The Trustees report no reserves policy target, stating it is not their intention to build up income reserves, with all funds available for spending at their discretion. The charity had no employees and no trustee remuneration during the year, relying on investment income to fund charitable grants.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~1.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/10/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr JONATHAN ALTHAM WOODchair
• AUDREY WOOD OBE
• Dr Andrew Buxton
• Dr ROBIN DAVID BUXTON MBE
• Nicholas Wood
• SARAH MARGARET BUXTON · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• THE LADY FORESTER TRUST income £209k
• THE F GLENISTER WOODGER TRUST CIO income £1.7m
• HARTSWOOD TRUST income £343k
• THE WOODLANDS TRUST income £246k
• THE WOODWARD CHARITABLE TRUST income £245k
• THE TRESANTON TRUST income £470k

Side by side with its peers

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