THE ROWLAND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1180826 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as REF

To grant bursaries to students at various named educational establishments. For training and research purposes, adult education, technical or vocational training, advancing education or supporting an educational establishment for students. Trustees Do Not accept any unsolicited applications

Objects

THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE TRUST FUND UPON TRUST TO APPLY THE INCOME, AND ALL OR SUCH PART OR PARTS OF THE CAPITAL, AT SUCH TIME OR TIMES AND IN SUCH MANNER TO, OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH CHARITIES OR SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD (OBJECTS) AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR 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 · Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted free reserves of £557,608, which is an increase from the previous year's £326,381. The trustees note that due to the availability of an expendable endowment fund, they do not consider it necessary to maintain significant free reserves, although such reserves arise from time to time. The charity reported total incoming resources of £377,752 and total resources expended of £194,050 for the year ended 20 September 2025.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Blue Spire Limited. Discloses 3 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• 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.

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 20/09/2022 (received 24/07/2023, 4 days after the 20/07/2023 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/04/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDA ROWLAND
• JOSIE ROWLAND
• Ludlow Trust Company Ltd · trustee of 44 other charities

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 THE RADFORD EDUCATIONAL TRUST.

• THE RADFORD EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £247k
• EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF ROBERT OLDFIELD income £300k
• YARDLEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION income £200k
• THE FRIENDS OF ROWAN ASSOCIATION income £41k
• FUND FOR ACTION THROUGH EDUCATION income £30k
• MISSIONARIES' CHILDREN'S FUND income £46k

Side by side with its peers

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