THE BENDER FAMILY TRUST

Registered charity 1163501 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To assist charities whose aims include advancing the development, education, physical and/or mental health of persons under the age of 25 and to assist charities whose aims include promoting and protecting the physical and mental health of sufferers of cancer.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH AND THE SAVING OF LIVES IN PARTICULAR BY:- PROVING ASSISTANCE TO PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF 25 YEARS BY FUNDING ANY CHARITY IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM (AND, WHERE FUNDS ALLOW, TO CHARITIES THROUGHOUT ENGLAND) WHOSE AIMS INCLUDE ADVANCING THE DEVELOPMENT, EDUCATION, PHYSICAL HEALTH AND/OR MENTAL HEALTH OF PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF 25 YEARS; AND- PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO SUFFERERS OF CANCER BY FUNDING ANY CHARITY IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM (AND, WHERE FUNDS ALLOW, TO CHARITIES IN OTHER PARTS OF ENGLAND) WHOSE AIMS INCLUDE PROMOTING AND PROTECTING THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF SUFFERERS OF CANCER, AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH AND SAVING LIVES, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, SUPPORT, EDUCATION AND PRACTICAL ADVICE AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN ALL AREAS RELATING TO CANCER.

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 the charity is preparing to wind down its operations, with trustees intending to spend out the fund and close the trust in the long term. To meet current grant commitments, the trust has borrowed against its investment fund, resulting in a net payment position for the year. The independent examiner confirmed that the accounts comply with applicable regulations and no material matters were found.

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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• RAJAN BERRYchair
• ROGER BENDER
• Richard Hemingway

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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