GOWER STREET

Registered charity 1183461 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE MARPLE CHARITABLE TRUST

Gower Street makes grants to organisations involved in combating the global climate emergency, and to organisations working to improve school education outcomes in Ghana. Occasionally grants are made for other purposes at the trustees' discretion. Unsolicited applications for funding are not accepted.

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Latest income

£478k

Latest spending

£1.8m

Registered

2019

Accounts read

FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £3,138,766, having adopted no conventional reserves policy as it intends to wind up and disburse all funds by 2030. The charity has no employees and incurred no fundraising costs, resulting in a net expenditure of £999,832 for the year.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Related-party transaction: Charitable grants of £4,300 were made to Students Organising for Sustainability UK, where trustee H Williams is also a trustee.

“Charitable grants of £4,300 (2023 - £11,335) were made by the charity to Students Organising for Sustainability UK. H Williams, a trustee of Gower Street, is a trustee of Students Organising for Sustainability UK.” — page 21

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/10/2023)

Total income

£807k

Total spending

£2.0m

Reserves (reported)

£340k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~2.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (96% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (05/08/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Sophie Marplechair · trustee of 1 other charity
Florence Georgia Bess Miller · trustee of 2 other charities
Lawrence Brobbey
NICHOLAS JAMES MARPLE

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

Operates in: Ghana · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/10/2025	£478k	£1.8m
31/10/2024	£231k	£1.5m
31/10/2023	£807k	£2.0m
31/10/2022	£1.8m	£1.5m
31/10/2021	£454k	£478k

Common questions

Is GOWER STREET financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £3,138,766, having adopted no conventional reserves policy as it intends to wind up and disburse all funds by 2030. The charity has no employees and incurred no fundraising costs, resulting in a net expenditure of £999,832 for the year. Its FY2024 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds GOWER STREET?

Funders whose own accounts filings name GOWER STREET as a grant recipient include THE A TEAM FOUNDATION LIMITED, POLDEN PUCKHAM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE A TEAM FOUNDATION LIMITED	FY2025	£10k
POLDEN PUCKHAM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	FY2025	£2k

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
MONTPELIER FOUNDATION LIMITED	1	£30k
NEWBY TRUST LIMITED	1	£10k
WOODCOCK CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£5k

Charities like this

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

THE STREET FOUNDATION income £750k
THE GOWER SOCIETY income £161k
The Global Returns Project Limited income £1.9m
PAYNE GALLWEY 1989 CHARITABLE TRUST income £183k
GGS SCHOOL FUND income £331k
THE CECIL GRANT FOUNDER'S TRUST FOR ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL income £133k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
GOWER STREET	£478k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE STREET FOUNDATION FY2025	£750k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE GOWER SOCIETY FY2024	£161k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
The Global Returns Project Limited FY2026	£1.9m	—	unclear	—	no doubt
PAYNE GALLWEY 1989 CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£183k	—	above	—	no doubt
GGS SCHOOL FUND FY2025	£331k	—	unclear	—	noted

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