THE CHESS TRUST

Registered charity 1160881 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of grants to organisations and individuals for the development of the playing of chess

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF AMATEUR SPORT BY PROMOTING THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF CHESS IN ALL ITS FORMS, PRINCIPALLY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RESIDENTS OF ENGLAND; AND 2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY PROMOTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH THE TEACHING AND PRACTICE OF CHESS.

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

Causes: Education/training · Amateur Sport · Recreation · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bromsgrove, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity holds total funds of £790,017, comprising £639,880 in restricted reserves and £150,137 in unrestricted reserves. Although the charity reported a net expenditure of £30,715 for the year, it maintains adequate liquid funds to meet planned expenditure over the forthcoming years. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/01/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/01/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adam Gerard Ashton
• Alexander Longson
• DAVID STANLEY WILLIAM EUSTACE
• Dr Stephen Greep · trustee of 1 other charity
• Evgeny Kornilovich
• MICHAEL CYRIL TRURAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Malcolm Bernard Pein
• Richard James Walsh
• Sarah Natasha Longson
• Simon David Brown

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• THE FORT TRUST income £29k
• CHESS IN SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES income £2.0m
• BUCKS COUNTY TENNIS income £196k
• THE SHAAREI CHESED TRUST income £161k
• THE GOODENOUGH CHARITABLE TRUST income £50k
• THE HOMESTEAD CHARITABLE TRUST income £279k

Side by side with its peers

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