ROWLAND HILL MEMORIAL AND BENEVOLENT FUND

Registered charity 207479 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ROWLAND HILL FUND

The Charity supports current and former Royal Mail Group Ltd and Post Office Ltd employees. We provide one-off financial grants for those facing unexpected financial difficulties, life-changing health challenges or homelessness.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF NEED AMONG EMPLOYEES AND FORMER EMPLOYEES OF THE POST OFFICE AND THEIR WIDOWS OR WIDOWERS AND OTHER DEPENDANTS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED KINGDOM WHO ARE SUFFERING HARDSHIP AS A RESULT OF POVERTY, AGE, OR INFIRMITY.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED.

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity finished the year with a net deficit of £46,435, excluding investment gains, resulting in a net movement in funds of £86,035 after accounting for a £132,470 gain on investments. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stand at £5,655,026, which the Trustees consider sufficient to sustain grant-making and operations for the foreseeable future despite concerns about reducing staff and pensioner donations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Knox Cropper LLP. 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2021 (received 06/01/2023, 340 days after the 31/01/2022 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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~116.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 18.3% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Shaun Paul Davischair
• DAVID BLAKE
• Helen Elizabeth Bradshaw
• Ian Malcolm McKnight
• Katharine Elaine Martin
• Louise Alexander
• Michael Paul Clarke
• Ms Mel Tomlin
• RICHARD JOSEPH POOLE
• Robert Fowler
• Rodney James Jagelman
• Sarah Collins

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with POSTAL HERITAGE TRUST.

• POSTAL HERITAGE TRUST income £6.3m
• RED HILL CHARITABLE TRUST income £73k
• THE ROWLAND BROTHERS FOUNDATION income £87k
• THE ROWLAND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION income £378k
• THE ROSALIND HICKS CHARITABLE TRUST income £50k
• H J RAWLINGS TRUST income £40k

Side by side with its peers

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