THE BLAGRAVE TRUST

Registered charity 1164021 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Blagrave Trust is a grant-making charity that funds and collaborates with partners to bring lasting change to the lives of young people. We invest in them as powerful forces for change and act upon their right to be heard in pursuit of a fair and just society.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of £571,824 for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven by strong investment and property income. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £40,005,213, significantly exceeding the stated policy target of six months' expenditure (£1.74 million). The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Eli Manderson Evans — CEO (source)
• Valeria Tavares — Chief Operating Officer (source)
• Marie Benton — Head of Communities and Partnerships (source)
• Tessa Hibbert — Head of Grants (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

16 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (15 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (58% 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: 17.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (27/02/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Segun Olowookerechair
• Adaeze Whitney Aghaji
• Barbara Ojei Agwaziam
• Boudicca Pepper
• Josephine Campling
• Nasra Abdilhakim Ahmed
• Rebecca Weighell
• Reema Nitin Desai · trustee of 1 other charity
• Samuel George Tarff
• Troy Norbert

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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Side by side with its peers

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