RICK MATHER DAVID SCRASE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1200096 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Foundation will make grants to charitable causes that match the interests of the late Rick Mather and the late David Scrase. Applications will only be accepted by invitation of the trustees.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £2,304,813, which the trustees consider sufficient to continue grant giving. The charity maintains a reserves policy of holding three to six months of expenditure, a level it confirms has been maintained throughout the year. Despite a net decrease in funds of £578,602 due to significant grant spending and investment losses, the trustees report no material uncertainties regarding 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 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~92.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Richard Jarmanchair
• Charlie Barclay
• Hugh Anthony Wilson
• Professor Catherine Whistler · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · 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 David Rattray Foundation.

• David Rattray Foundation income £383k
• Matchroom Charitable Foundation income £1.7m
• THE MATHER FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST income £607k
• THE GRANT FOUNDATION income £185k
• THE SCS TRUST income £166k
• THE SUMMERSCALE FOUNDATION income £2.6m

Side by side with its peers

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