THE SOUTH SQUARE TRUST

Registered charity 1184905 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The South Square Trust's primary objective is to assist talented young people in the UK from disadvantaged backgrounds who are taking degree-level courses in the fine and applied arts, by awarding scholarships to particular schools, colleges and institutions. Individual applications are not considered. Charities: no unsolicited requests accepted.

Objects

TO APPLY THE INCOME AND DISTRIBUTE THE CAPITAL TO SUCH CHARITIES OR FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DETERMINE

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bromley, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds free reserves of £488,561, which aligns with the trustees' view that approximately £480,000 is needed to operate effectively. The charity reported a net gain of £282,215 for the year, driven by significant investment gains, resulting in total funds increasing to £5,288,561. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Knox Cropper 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.

• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/02/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Paul Grimwadechair
• Andrew Charles Blessley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Angela Margaret Cork
• Geoffrey Cale Matthews · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Alexander Brand Inglis

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• THE SUTTON TRUST income £7.1m
• THE TALENT FOUNDRY TRUST income £2.0m
• SIGNIFICANCE income £53k
• STUART HALL FOUNDATION income £228k
• FARNHAM SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND ART income £33k
• DARTMOUTH STREET TRUST income £27k

Side by side with its peers

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