THE POLICE ARBORETUM MEMORIAL TRUST

Registered charity 1159831 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PAMT

PAMT aims to honour the dedication, courage and sacrifice of members of the UK's Police service, through the creation of a new UK Police Memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, the UK?s place for year round remembrance. Commemoration, remembrance and reflection will be at its heart, also nurturing a sense of pride and value in our Police through its educational elements.

Objects

1) THE PROMOTION OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THROUGH THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF A PERMANENT MEMORIAL TO THE POLICE OFFICERS WHO HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE PERFORMANCE OF THEIR DUTIES.2) TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF THE DEPENDENTS OF POLICE OFFICERS WHO HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE PERFORMANCE OF THEIR DUTIES BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING, SUPPORT AND BY SUCH OTHER MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DETERMINE.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted free reserves fell to £87,675 at the end of the year, resulting in a net expenditure of £150,521. The trustees confirm that this level of reserves is within anticipated levels and sufficient to continue operations for the next twelve months, with no material uncertainties identified regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Locke Williams Associates LLP. 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08961292 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — UK Police Memorial (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• PERRY, John Lindsay — director, appointed 03/06/2025on trustee list
• BLAKE-TURNER, Grace — director, appointed 12/12/2024on trustee list
• TEDDS, Debra Jane — director, appointed 12/12/2024on trustee list
• ADAMS, Benedict Burne — director, appointed 12/12/2024on trustee list
• SLESSOR, James William — director, appointed 13/06/2023on trustee list
• STEPHENS, Gavin John — director, appointed 13/06/2023not on trustee list
• CRITCHLEY, Clive Richard — director, appointed 16/09/2022on trustee list
• WILBRAHAM, David, Canon — director, appointed 06/06/2022not on trustee list
• JELLEY, Martin — director, appointed 21/09/2021not on trustee list
• HEWITT, Martin James — director, appointed 04/06/2019not on trustee list
• YORK, Giles Tristan — director, appointed 11/09/2018not on trustee list
• UNDERHILL, Martyn Stanley — director, appointed 09/03/2018not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2021)

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (68% 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: 72.6% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gavin John Stephens QPMchair
• Benedict Adams
• Clive Richard Critchley · trustee of 1 other charity
• DAVID WILBRAHAM MBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Debra Jane Tedds
• Giles Tristan York QPM
• Grace Blake-Turner
• James William Slessor
• John Lindsay Perry
• Martin James Hewitt QPM
• Martin Jelley QPM
• Martyn Stanley Underhill MBE · 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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Known funders

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Charities like this

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

• THE POLICE MEMORIAL TRUST income £138k
• THE ROYAL MILITARY POLICE MUSEUM TRUST income £95k
• THE NATIONAL MEMORIAL ARBORETUM COMPANY LIMITED income £5.4m

Side by side with its peers

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