THE SCOTT BADER COMMONWEALTH LIMITED

Registered charity 206391 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Makes grants to charitable organisations around the world whose purposes are to help young or disadvantaged people, especially anyone suffering deprivation and discrimination, such as poor, homeless and vulnerable women and children, minority communities, particularly where people are affected by: poverty, a lack of education, malnutrition and disease

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held total funds of £1,717k at year-end, with unrestricted free reserves of £1,245k. The charity's income is derived from donations and dividends from its trading subsidiary, Scott Bader Company Limited, and it does not undertake any fundraising activities. The Trustees consider the reserves policy of holding approximately three to six months' forward expenditure to be reasonable given the reliance on the subsidiary's profitability.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by RSM UK Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

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

Reported reserves equal ~20.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (93% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Martin Fordchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• Bhuvan Pratap Lalka
• David Black
• Dr Renu Gupta
• Gayatri Ramakrishnan
• John Leslie Brenchley
• Sonia Jayne Kaur Davies
• THOMAS JAMES BUCHAN SCOTT · trustee of 1 other charity
• Timothy Roy Treleaven Jones

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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