THE RUSHWORTH FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1162489 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Makes grants to organisations for charitable purposes with a particular but not exclusive interest in music.

Objects

DURING THE TRUST PERIOD THE TRUSTEES SHALL PAY OR APPLY THE INCOME OF THE TRUST FUND TO OR FOR THE FURTHERANCE OF SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE APPOINTOR SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME IN WRITING DIRECT AND SUBJECT TO OR IN DEFAULT OF ANY SUCH DIRECTION AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR DISCRETION THINK FIT

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: Liverpool, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £43,750, funding £30,000 in charitable grants and resulting in net unrestricted reserves of £16,634. The trustees report that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. No specific reserves policy target is stated, only that reserves are managed to balance current and future beneficiary needs.

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
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2021 (received 16/02/2023, 292 days after the 30/04/2022 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

• LCVS · trustee of 77 other charities

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 RUFFORD FOUNDATION.

• THE RUFFORD FOUNDATION income £3.9m
• THE ASHWORTH CHARITABLE TRUST income £201k
• TAUNTON ROUND TABLE CHARITABLE TRUST FUND income £54k
• ROBERT LUFF FOUNDATION LIMITED income £823k
• CHARITWORTH LIMITED income £3.3m
• THE SAMWORTH FOUNDATION income £3.2m

Side by side with its peers

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