THE 4814 TRUST

Registered charity 1199820 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Grant making in support of children, disadvantaged young persons, the disabled and the elderly.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £10,263,044, supported by significant investment gains and a large capital donation. The trustees confirm that assets are adequate to meet obligations and that the reserves policy was met for the year. The charity reported no employees and no fundraising activities during the period.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Westcotts (SW) LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 14227311

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Chris Bedwell — Chair (source)

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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• ARGYLE, Fergus Causer — director, appointed 12/04/2023on trustee list
• BEDWELL, Carole Elizabeth — director, appointed 12/07/2022on trustee list
• BEDWELL, Francis Christopher — director, appointed 12/07/2022on trustee list
• BEDWELL, Francis Thomas — director, appointed 12/07/2022on trustee list
• GARDNER, Christopher Julyan — director, appointed 12/07/2022on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (90% 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: 2.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• FRANCIS CHRISTOPHER BEDWELLchair
• CAROLE ELIZABETH BEDWELL
• CHRISTOPHER JULYAN GARDNER
• FERGUS CAUSER ARGYLE
• FRANCIS THOMAS BEDWELL

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• THE LEACH FOURTEENTH TRUST income £119k
• CAREDUCATION TRUST LTD income £133k
• T & S TRUST FUND income £334k
• THE HARAMEAD TRUST income £4.8m
• MIDDLE WAY TRUST income £111k
• THE IRON BRIDGE TRUST income £390k

Side by side with its peers

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