THE BROTHERS TRUST

Registered charity 1172675 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity's objects are to raise income and distribute funds to charities who demonstrate a need and can demonstrate a tangible impact. Using the funds raised, the Charity identifies needs itself and considers unsolicited applications for funds.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO UNDERTAKE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES OR MAKE DONATIONS TO SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTION OR INSTITUTIONS AT SUCH A TIME OR TIMES AND IN SUCH A MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE.

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: Kingston upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £292,101 are comfortably above the trustees' stated policy target of £125,000. The charity reported a small net income surplus of £6,708 for the year, with total income of £597,423 and total expenditure of £590,715.

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 5 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.

• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 10722497
• Trading subsidiary: THE BROTHERS TRUST (TRADING) LIMITED Companies House 11004844

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• KOAY, Lena Suan Hoon — director, appointed 30/09/2022on trustee list
• COOK, Gregory Howard — director, appointed 17/05/2022on trustee list
• COOK, Janine Dawn — director, appointed 17/05/2022on trustee list
• COATES, Andrea Michele — director, appointed 17/05/2022on trustee list
• HOLLAND, Dominic Anthony — director, appointed 12/04/2017on trustee list
• HOLLAND, Nicola Elizabeth — director, appointed 12/04/2017on trustee list
• HOLLAND, Thomas Stanley — director, appointed 12/04/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (55% 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: 8.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DOMINIC ANTHONY HOLLANDchair
• Andrea Coates
• Gregory Howard Cook
• Janine Dawn Cook
• Lena Suan Hoon Koay
• NICOLA ELIZABETH HOLLAND
• THOMAS STANLEY HOLLAND

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 Brethren In Christ Church in the UK.

• Brethren In Christ Church in the UK income £84k
• THE BRITWELL TRUST income £37k
• NORTHERN BRETHREN'S FUND income £308k
• BHM CHARITABLE TRUST income £136k
• THE I S A CHARITY income £52k
• THE BROCKLEBANK CHARITABLE TRUST income £23k

Side by side with its peers

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