THE CHARITY OF WILLIAM WILLIAMS

Registered charity 202188 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WILLIAM WILLIAMS CHARITY

Grant making charity for the relief of the poor, sick and for educational needs

Objects

RELIEVING EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED,HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS BY MAKING GRANTS OF MONEY OR PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR ITEMS,SERVICES OR FACILITIES CALCULATED TO REDUCE THE NEED,HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS OF SUCH PERSONS.

Area of benefit: ANCIENT PARISHES OF BLANDFORD FORUM, SHAFTESBURY AND STURMINSTER NEWTON

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Dorset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £9.24m, with free reserves of £789,662, which exceeds the trustees' prudent target of 12 months' expenditure (£408,000). The charity derives most income from property investments and maintains a strong balance sheet with net current assets in excess of £1m, indicating sufficient liquidity to continue activities for at least the next twelve months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Edwards and Keeping 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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2023 (received 23/12/2024, 53 days after the 31/10/2024 due date); year ending 31/12/2022 (received 29/04/2024, 181 days after the 31/10/2023 due date); year ending 31/12/2021 (received 23/02/2023, 115 days after the 31/10/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~21.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (98% 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: 19.3% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ROBERT COWLEYchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andy Hollingshead
• CAROLE SHARP
• Colin Stevens
• HAYDN WHITE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Helen Jacqueline Lacey
• JAMES DAVID THRIFT · trustee of 3 other charities
• MR JOE ROSE · trustee of 2 other charities
• RICHARD PRIDEAUX-BRUNE

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

Operates in: Dorset

Income and spending

Common questions

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE WILLIAMS CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE WILLIAMS CHARITABLE TRUST income £92k
• WILLIAMSON TRUST income £727k
• THE WILLIAM LEECH CHARITY income £625k
• WILLIAM HEATHER WILL TRUST income £57k
• JAMES WILLIAMS TRUST income £46k
• THE UNITED CHARITY OF WILLIAM AVERY AND OTHERS income £43k

Side by side with its peers

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