THE CHARLES AND ELSIE SYKES TRUST

Registered charity 1204728 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

TO FURTHER SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR SUCH CHARITIES, AND SUCH PERSONS BEING BY REASON OF POVERTY IN THE OPINION OF THE TRUSTEES IN NEED OF CHARITABLE RELIEF, AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION SELECT.

Objects

TO FURTHER SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR SUCH CHARITIES, AND SUCH PERSONS BEING BY REASON OF POVERTY IN THE OPINION OF THE TRUSTEES IN NEED OF CHARITABLE RELIEF, AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION SELECT.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity's unrestricted reserves fell to £235,107, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of maintaining reserves equal to half a year's net income excluding grants. Despite this decrease, the total funds held increased significantly due to investment gains, and the trustees confirm there are 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 audited by HPH Accountants LLP. Discloses 5 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 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: 10.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/02/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID STANLEY MEADchair
• Dr DAVID JULIAN LEINHARDT
• Dr Elizabeth Mary Rimmer
• Elaine Morrison
• Nicholas Charles Rust
• Nicola Mercer
• Richard Jonathan Newton
• SEAN RUSHTON
• Sara Louise Buchan

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England

Income and spending

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• THE CHARLES SKEY CHARITABLE TRUST income £351k
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• THE SHAAREI CHESED TRUST income £161k
• THE ALEXANDER MOSLEY CHARITABLE TRUST income £5.8m
• THE CYRIL SHACK TRUST income £61k

Side by side with its peers

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