THE VIOLET TRUST

Registered charity 1211694 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

General Charitable Purposes. Trustees Do Not accept any unsolicited applications.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO FURTHER SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD (OBJECTS) AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity received significant incoming resources of £2,652,463, primarily driven by a £6 million donation from the settlor trustee. Charitable expenditure totaled £2,567,592, resulting in a net movement in funds and unrestricted reserves of £89,079. The trustees report that the charity is prepared on a going concern basis with sufficient funds to continue operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Blue Spire Limited. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting 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 19/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• James Hodson Brown
• Ludlow Trust Company Limited · trustee of 13 other charities
• Roger Wilbraham Bunting

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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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 THE VIOLET MAURAY CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE VIOLET MAURAY CHARITABLE TRUST income £65k
• VIOLET PROJECT CIO income £111k
• THE POTEL CHARITABLE TRUST income £111k
• THE FORT TRUST income £29k
• THE VIOLET HELEN DIXON CHARITABLE TRUST income £36k
• THE PREVO TRUST income £164k

Side by side with its peers

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