THE GEOFFREY AND PAULINE MARTIN TRUST

Registered charity 1176463 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Geoffrey and Pauline Martin Trust's objects are to apply funds held to promote charitable purposes in any part of the world. Specifically, the Charitable Trusts focus will be supporting charities in the following areas: medical conditions including cancer, arthritis, asthma, kidney diseases and those attributable to ageing. The Charitable Trust will also focus on animals, in particular cats.

Objects

TO ADVANCE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES (ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES) AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME.

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: Liverpool, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total unrestricted funds increased by £9 to £11,246,031, with investments valued at £10,542,203. The Trustees consider their investments as expendable endowments and do not maintain specific income reserves, relying instead on investment income to fund grants. The Trustees are satisfied that assets are adequate to meet current objectives and continue operations for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by DSG Chartered Accountants. 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.

• 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

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2025 (received 07/05/2026, 7 days after the 30/04/2026 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2023)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (65% 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: 9.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/05/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANTHONY MICHAEL BAYLISS · trustee of 4 other charities
• JANE LOUISE FAGAN · trustee of 2 other charities
• PHILIP JAMES BARKS

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 MARGARET GIFFEN CHARITABLE TRUST.

• MARGARET GIFFEN CHARITABLE TRUST income £43k
• THE GEORGE BALINT CHARITABLE TRUST income £91k
• BETTY PHILLIPS CHARITABLE TRUST income £116k
• THE JACQUELINE AND MICHAEL GEE CHARITABLE TRUST income £83k
• ANIMAL AID CHARITABLE TRUST income £200k
• THE PETER JOHN FOORD CHARITABLE TRUST income £96k

Side by side with its peers

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