Isles of Scilly Charitable Trust comprising the Edward McDonald Fund and the Pilots Widows Fund

Registered charity 207551 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EDWARD MCDONALD TRUST

For such charitable institutions, organisations or purposes within the Isles of Scilly as the Trustees from time to time think fit.

Objects

FOR SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS, ORGANISATIONS OR PURPOSES WITHIN THE ISLES OF SCILLY AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: ISLES OF SCILLY

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total assets held by the Isles of Scilly Charitable Trust amounted to £248,188.44 as of 31 March 2025. The trustees' report indicates that the Trust complied with its reserves policy by maintaining cash balances above the stated £10,000 working target, with the majority of funds invested in various investment funds.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• Safeguarding 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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 01/08/2024, 183 days after the 31/01/2024 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 fundraising profile: JustGiving — Edward McDonald Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Joel Williamschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Frances Grottick
• Rev CAROLE MARGARET HOLMES
• Rev Elizabeth Burke
• Sarah Pelistry Molison Hale
• Stephen Watt
• Tim Jones

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

Operates in: Isles Of Scilly

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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