WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF INSURERS CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1175425 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Education, the relief of poverty and assistance and support for persons who are currently serving or have served in the armed forces of the United Kingdom and their dependents.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds decreased to £3,976,199 from £4,197,629 in the prior year, driven by net expenditure exceeding incoming resources. The unrestricted reserves stood at £34,622, which is below the Trustees' stated target of approximately £40,000. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kreston Reeves Audit LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• WCI Charitable Trust — “The WCI team raised just over £6000 with donations from family, friends, WCI colleagues and matched funding from the WCI Charitable Trust.” (source page)
• WCI — “Made in Hackney is a community cookery school that that has been grant-aided over the last year by the WCI.” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~81.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (97% 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/01/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/04/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/04/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Howard Pearson
• Ian Clark · trustee of 1 other charity
• Katie Wade
• Kirsty Gray
• Lucy Elizabeth Hodgson Armitage · trustee of 1 other charity
• STEPHEN LESLIE MCCANN · trustee of 2 other charities
• Sally Bramall
• Stephen Anthony Ross

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 ARMED FORCES EDUCATION TRUST.

• ARMED FORCES EDUCATION TRUST income £555k
• THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF ENGINEERS CHARITABLE TRUST FUND income £219k
• CARE AFTER COMBAT income £973k
• ROYAL ARTILLERY CHARITABLE FUND income £1.8m
• ROYAL ENGINEERS VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING TRUST income £730k
• THE ROYAL CALEDONIAN EDUCATION TRUST income £291k

Side by side with its peers

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