CATHY WILLS CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1199576 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Cathy Wills Charitable Trust is a grant making trust that makes awards to other registered charities engaged in the welfare of the elderly, disabled and children, and to educational and cultural organisations.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO (OBJECTS) ARE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, TO ADVANCE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES (ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES) AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY MAKING GRANTS TO OTHER CHARITIES WHICH HAVE PURPOSES TO (A) RELIEVE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; (B) MEET THE CHARITABLE NEEDS OF THOSE IN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY AND/OR ADVANCE THE JEWISH FAITH; (C) PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO THOSE WITH A DISABILITY; AND/OR (D) PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES WITHIN THE ARTS AND SCIENCE COMMUNITY

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) · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds totalled £3,323,513, with the majority held in a fixed asset investment portfolio. The charity generated £156,490 in investment income and distributed £129,721 in grants during the year. The trustees consider there are no material uncertainties about the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 3 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2024 (received 09/12/2025, 39 days after the 31/10/2025 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~193.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (97% 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• CATHERINE WILLSchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alexander Wills
• Annabelle Scholar
• Natalie Wills

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with F J WALLIS CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT.

• F J WALLIS CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT income £59k
• CECIL AND HILDA LEWIS CHARITABLE TRUST income £158k
• THE WILLAN CHARITABLE TRUST income £35k
• PEGGY WILSON CHARITABLE WILL TRUST income £32k
• THE WALLITT FOUNDATION income £27k
• THE WARWICK TRUST income £153k

Side by side with its peers

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