SETCHIM CHARITABLE FUND

Registered charity 1206580 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our purpose is to provide grants to existing charities whose principal aims are to support the advancement of (a) education, (b) environmental protection or improvement, (c) animal welfare, (d) citizenship or community development.Priority is given to supporting our local communities in (i) Suffolk and (ii) the City of London and its environs.

Objects

TO ADVANCE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES (ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES) AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY MAKING GRANTS TO OTHER CHARITIES WHICH FOCUS ON THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE ADVANCEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION OR IMPROVEMENT, THE ADVANCEMENT OF ANIMAL WELFARE AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF CITIZENSHIP OR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated at an operating deficit of £19,210 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in a net decrease in unrestricted funds. Despite this, the charity maintains total unrestricted reserves of £439,072, which significantly exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of £50,000. The trustees confirm there is no material uncertainty regarding the charity's status 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.

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
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Richard Victor Yerburgh Setchimchair
• Elizabeth Mary Setchim

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

Operates in: City Of London · Suffolk

Income and spending

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• ANIMAL AID CHARITABLE TRUST income £200k
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• SCJM CHARITABLE TRUST income £54k

Side by side with its peers

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