THE NATIONAL BENEVOLENT CHARITY

Registered charity 212450 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NATIONAL BENEVOLENT CHARITY, FOUNDED BY THE LATE PETER HERVÉ, NATIONAL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION, NATIONAL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION, FOUNDED BY THE LATE PETER HERVÉ, NBI, THE NATIONAL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION (FOUNDED BY THE LATE PETER HERVE)

Grant Making for relief of poverty

Objects

THE RELIEF OF QUALIFYING PERSONS (AS DEFINED IN CLAUSE 4) WHO ARE IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE BY REASON OF OLD AGE, INFIRMITY, SICKNESS OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Charity reported a net expenditure of £1,286,023 for the year, driven by a £345,063 loss on investments and total charitable expenditure of £1,218,091. Despite this loss, the Charity maintains a strong balance sheet with total net assets of £25,007,512 and unrestricted funds of £23,267,941. The Trustees confirm the Charity has sufficient resources to continue operating for the near future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Randall & Payne 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.

• Complaints handling
• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Henderson Bequest — “The Henderson Bequest* intends to amend its objects to the objects of the National Benevolent Charity**” (source page)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (44% 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: 12.3% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/07/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/07/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• James Stephen Golobchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Elizabeth Claire MAXWELL
• Hazel Sewell
• John Charles Churchill
• Margaret Playle
• Nishil Patel
• Richard Bruce Davies Bromilow
• VICTORIA DANIELL

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• THE M Y A CHARITABLE TRUST income £88k
• BNJC income £4.1m
• NETWORK FOR SOCIAL CHANGE CHARITABLE TRUST income £2.0m
• THE CHARITY SERVICE LIMITED income £1.3m
• THE MULLION CHARITABLE TRUST income £45k
• Be The Mercy income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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