National Philanthropic Trust UK Limited

Registered charity 1181128 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q141190992 · also known as NPT NEWCO LIMITED, NPT UK

The Charity raises funds from a range of donors and makes grants to such exclusively charitable projects as the trustees may determine, both in the UK and abroad.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO FURTHER SUCH PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAWS 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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted assets reached £367.1M, an increase of 104% from the prior year, driven by significant growth in donations and investment gains. The charity maintains unrestricted operating funds of £2.3M, which exceeds its stated reserves policy target of three to six months' general operating expenditure. The Trustees and auditors confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by RSM UK Audit LLP. 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.

• Bullying and harassment 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
• Safeguarding 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Natalie Pinon — Interim CEO (source)
• Lucy Shepherd — Director, Grants (source)
• Stefan Velvick — Director of Development (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 2.6 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: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/04/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CERIS MARY GARDNERchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• David Harley Athol ROWE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Holly Kathleen Welch · trustee of 1 other charity
• VIVIEN MARY GOULD

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• David Harley Athol ROWE — trustee here and at NPT Transatlantic Limited
• Holly Kathleen Welch — trustee here and at NPT Transatlantic Limited

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE FIDELITY UK FOUNDATION.

• THE FIDELITY UK FOUNDATION income £12.4m
• THE PHILLIDA NICHOLSON CHARITABLE TRUST income £142k
• THE FIELDROSE CHARITABLE TRUST income £325k
• THE GFF UK TRUST income £250k
• NATLAS TRUST income £153k
• AL Philanthropies income £25.6m

Side by side with its peers

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