THE ERNEST KLEINWORT CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1197205 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

A grant making charity with general charitable purpose, principally giving support to those operating in the county of Sussex, or working in the fields of wildlife and environmental conservation (national and international).

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS TO ADVANCE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES (ACCORDING TO 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.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Horsham, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The Trust reported a net operations deficit of £681,669 on an income basis, driven by charitable donations exceeding investment income. However, the Trust holds substantial unrestricted reserves of £3,170,119 and maintains a cash buffer equivalent to one year’s grant making to preserve liquidity. The Trustees confirmed adequate resources exist to continue as a going concern for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by TC Group. Discloses 3 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
• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~13.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (100% 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: 17.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/05/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexander Hamilton Kleinwort
• BRIAN ARTHUR CHARLES MAYHEW · trustee of 1 other charity
• CEETAH GRIEVES
• MARK ROBERT JOHN TYNDALL
• Marina Rose Kleinwort
• Nicola Glover · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Amelia Jane Dickman
• Sir Richard Drake Kleinwort
• The Right Honourable Edmund Christopher Earl of Limerick

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

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

• THE CORNWELL CHARITABLE TRUST income £38k
• THE BENNETT KLEINWORT CHARITABLE TRUST income £28k
• THE KELTON TRUST income £65k
• THE CUNMONT CHARITABLE TRUST income £2.4m
• THE E C SOSNOW CHARITABLE TRUST income £115k
• THE LAWRENCE CHARITABLE TRUST income £45k

Side by side with its peers

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