THE SYDNEY BRENNER CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1185278 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Grant making charity, promoting and funding medical research projects through the provision of grants to young medical researchers seeking by their research to prevent disease or disability or to heal or relieve the effects of disease or disability.

Objects

2.2 THE OBJECTS OF THE TRUST ARE TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN THE FIELD OF MEDICAL RESEARCH:(A) BY PROMOTING AND FUNDING MEDICAL RESEARCH PROJECTS THROUGH THE PROVISION OF GRANTS TO YOUNG MEDICAL RESEARCHERS SEEKING BY THEIR RESEARCH TO PREVENT DISEASE OR DISABILITY OR TO HEAL OR RELIEVE THE EFFECTS OF DISEASE OR DISABILITY; AND (B) BY SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME SEE FIT ("THE OBJECTS")

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

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

Latest income
£277k
Latest spending
£73k
Registered
2019
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £243,652 at the year end, held to meet future fellowship grant payments. The charity reported total income of £474,217 against charitable expenditure of £225,677, resulting in a net surplus for the period. 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

Reserves policy: meet future payments as they fall due mainly in relation to Sydney Brenner Fellowship grants (reserves figure: £244k)
“At year end the trust had reserves of £243,652. These are being held in order to meet future payments as they fall due mainly in relation to Sydney Brenner Fellowship grants.” — page 5
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Purchase of Nobel Prize medal from the estate of a trustee's relative.
“As described in the trustee report and in note 7, during the year the charity purchased the Nobel Prize medal from the late Sydney Brenner’s Estate for £250,000. One of the Trustees is a beneficiary of the estate.” — page 15
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

  • Grant-making is its main activity

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 31/03/2022 (received 29/03/2023, 57 days after the 31/01/2023 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Singapore · South Africa · Throughout England

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£277k£73k
31/03/2024£366k£226k
31/03/2023£108k£4k
31/03/2022£69k£39k
31/03/2021£215£375

Common questions

Is THE SYDNEY BRENNER CHARITABLE TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £243,652 at the year end, held to meet future fellowship grant payments. The charity reported total income of £474,217 against charitable expenditure of £225,677, resulting in a net surplus for the period. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2024 accounts were independently examined.

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SYDNEY BLACK CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
THE SYDNEY BRENNER CHARITABLE TRUST£277k—0above—no doubt
THE SYDNEY BLACK CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED FY2026£70k—0above—no doubt
THE DANIEL FALKNER CHARITABLE TRUST FY2026£175k——above—no doubt
SYDNEY AND PHYLLIS GOLDBERG MEMORIAL CHARITABLE TRUST FY2024£134k—0unclear—no doubt
MICHAEL AND LESLEY BENNETT CHARITABLE TRUST FY2026£42k—0unclear—no doubt
THE R S BROWNLESS CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£44k—0unclear—no doubt

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