THE JAN AND CATHERINE NASMYTH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1172417 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The objective of the Foundation is to advance such exclusively charitable purposes for the public benefit as the charitytrustees from time to time in their absolute discretion think fit. The organisation carries out its purposes by making grants to other organisations in furtherance of its purposes.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS TO ADVANCE SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £8,343,147, supported by total income of £1,273,723 and net income of £1,157,575. The trustees report no material uncertainties regarding going concern and note that the charity does not carry out significant fundraising activities, relying instead on donations from a family trust and investment income.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cooper Parry Group Limited. Discloses 4 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting 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)

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (79% 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: 0.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gregory Nasmyth
• PATRICK GILES BENJAMIN DODSON
• SIMON JOHN KINNA

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE JANET NASH CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT.

• THE JANET NASH CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT income £450k
• THE CH FOUNDATION (UK) income £119.3m
• THE ANTHONY & PAT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £174k
• THE JFH CHARITABLE TRUST income £90k
• PROWTING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £140k
• THE LANCASHIRE FOUNDATION income £764k

Side by side with its peers

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