MANAN TRUST

Registered charity 1201051 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The objectives of Manan Trust are promoting education, health, and poverty relief among children, young people, women, and the disadvantaged groups across Asia. It does so by distributing funds to and working in partnership with local organisations that carry out aligned work in their communities.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of USD 16,054,487, which significantly exceeds its stated policy target of USD 2,100,000. Per the trustees' report, cash balances are sufficient to cover remaining grant commitments, and the trustees consider there to be no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 14333798

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.

• JONES, Richard Iwan — director, appointed 27/09/2022on trustee list
• STAPLETON, Michael David — director, appointed 27/09/2022on trustee list
• MCNAB, Scott Melville — director, appointed 02/09/2022on trustee list
• THOMPSON, Alistair James — director, appointed 02/09/2022on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~117.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (81% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alistair James Thompsonchair
• Michael David Stapleton
• Richard Iwan Jones
• Scott Melville McNab

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

Operates in: Burma · Cambodia · Hong Kong · India · Indonesia · Nepal · Philippines · Singapore · Thailand · United States

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with A G MANLY CHARITABLE TRUST.

• A G MANLY CHARITABLE TRUST income £124k
• THE MANECK TRUST income £41k
• MAN GROUP PLC CHARITABLE TRUST income £334k
• MADNI TRUST income £1.2m
• MANKIND WELFARE TRUST income £921k
• AMANAT CHARITY TRUST income £71.9m

Side by side with its peers

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