CLARK FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1179639 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Making grants for capital projects to organisations which are located close to where C & J Clark Ltd employees, ex employees, pensioners and their dependents live. Occasionally grants for startup costs but not to individuals nor for running costs.Examples of recipients of recent grants have included schools, hospitals, community facilities, sports, village halls, preservation etc

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO APPLY THE FUNDS OF THE CIO IN ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING WAYS:(1) IN ASSISTING ANY PERSONS OF THE DESCRIPTION HEREINAFTER DESIGNATED WHO ARE DESIROUS OF EDUCATING THEMSELVES OR OBTAINING TUITION THEREFOR BUT WHOSE MEANS ARE INSUFFICIENT OR WILL NOT ALLOW THEIR OBTAINING SUCH EDUCATION OR TUITION AT THEIR OWN EXPENSE TO ATTEND UNIVERSITIES, SCHOOLS, COLLEGES, INSTITUTIONS OR CLASSES FOR THE PURPOSES OF EDUCATION BY PAYING OR MAKING CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS THEIR FEES OR TRAVELLING OR OTHER INCIDENTAL EXPENSES OR BY PROVIDING THEM WITH MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCES;(2) IN OTHERWISE PROMOTING THE EDUCATION OF ANY PERSONS;(3) IN ASSISTING ANY PERSONS WHO FROM AGE, ILL-HEALTH, ACCIDENT OR INFIRMITY ARE WHOLLY OR IN PART UNABLE TO MAINTAIN THEMSELVES BY THEIR OWN EXERTIONS;(4) IN PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF ANY PERSONS, SUCH FACILITIES BEING PROVIDED FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF SECTION 1 OF THE RECREATIONAL CHARITIES ACT 1958 AS SET OUT IN SUB-SECTION 2 OF THAT SECTION.

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £371,368 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total unrestricted funds from £12,684,375 to £12,313,007. The trustees confirm that all reserves are unrestricted and that the charity is able to draw down on its investment portfolio to meet liabilities as they fall due, despite holding net current liabilities of £431,335. The charity does not engage in direct fundraising and relies on investment income to fund its grant-making activities.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson 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
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

8 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (8 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• GLORIA JANE CLARKchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Cllr Martin Lovell · trustee of 9 other charities
• JUDITH ENID DERBYSHIRE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Peter Drew · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sebastian Edwards · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: India · Northern Ireland · Portugal · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales · United States · Vietnam

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with C AND J CLARK LIMITED EMPLOYEES 1922 TRUST.

• C AND J CLARK LIMITED EMPLOYEES 1922 TRUST income £54k
• JAC TRUST income £188k
• CLARE KING CHARITABLE TRUST income £32k
• THE ALBERT AND ELIZABETH CLARK CHARITABLE TRUST income £51k
• FRANCIS CLARK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £88k
• THE CLARKSON FOUNDATION income £582k

Side by side with its peers

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