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THE TRINITY CHALLENGE

Registered charity 1191909 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

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Latest income
£1.9m
Latest spending
£2.0m
Registered
2020
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £1,909,964 against total expenditure of £2,022,265, resulting in a net expenditure. The charity holds total reserves of £1,474,064, of which £320,993 is unrestricted, exceeding the Board's stated minimum requirement of £200,000 for operational and wind-down needs. The trustees and auditors confirm the charity is a going concern with adequate resources to meet its financial obligations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Restricted grants (95% of income)
“Total income during 2024 was £1,909,964 which included unrestricted donations of £1,490 and £1,823,232 of restricted grants for charitable activities on Antimicrobial Resistance.” — page 30
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: three months of operational expenditure or the amount needed to wind down the charity in an orderly manner (held: £321k)
“The Trinity Challenge reserves policy is to hold minimum unrestricted reserves that are the higher of 3 months of operational expenditure or the amount needed to wind down the charity in an orderly manner.” — page 30
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Total income
£1.9m
Total spending
£2.0m
Cost of raising funds
£72k
Reserves (reported)
£321k
Employees
4

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (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: 3.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales · United States

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2024£1.9m£2.0m
31/12/2023£1.1m£1.6m
31/12/2022£105k£2.1m
31/12/2021£7.7m£3.7m

Common questions

Is THE TRINITY CHALLENGE financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that total income for the year was £1,909,964 against total expenditure of £2,022,265, resulting in a net expenditure. The charity holds total reserves of £1,474,064, of which £320,993 is unrestricted, exceeding the Board's stated minimum requirement of £200,000 for operational and wind-down needs. The trustees and auditors confirm the charity is a going concern with adequate resources to meet its financial obligations. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP.

Who funds THE TRINITY CHALLENGE?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE TRINITY CHALLENGE as a grant recipient include TRINITY COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
TRINITY COLLEGE CAMBRIDGEFY2025£644kRelated party donation

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
The Bridgepoint Group Foundation1£57k
THE ICELAND FOODS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION1£29k
THE FREDDIE GREEN AND FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION1£15k
JOAN AINSLIE CHARITABLE TRUST1£8k
THE GORDON GRAY TRUST1£6k
R G HILLS CHARITABLE TRUST1£2k
GOWLING WLG (UK) CHARITABLE TRUST1£1k
PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST COLUMBA, CROSSPOOL1£250

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TRINITY COLLEGE LONDON.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
THE TRINITY CHALLENGE£1.9m—0above—no doubt
TRINITY COLLEGE LONDON FY2025£53.1m——unclear—no doubt
PARISH OF EAST HAM, HOLY TRINITY FY2025£345k—0unclear—no doubt
THE ARK MISSION AT TRINITY LIMITED FY2024£165kUnder £60,0000above—no doubt
THE CHALLENGE FUND - THE FIGHT AGAINST CANCER IN THE EMERGING WORLD FY2025£290k—0above—no doubt
TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH FY2025£1.7m——above—no doubt

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