R L GLASSPOOL CHARITY TRUST

Registered charity 214648 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Grant-maker for frontline organisations that provide whole-person support to access and distribute funding to their service users and clients.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE (A) IN NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS OR (B) SICK, CONVALESCENT, DISABLED OR INFIRM

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

Registered contact address: Waltham Forest, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds decreased to £37.4 million, with investment income falling by 2.3% to £2.25 million. The charity reports a negative unrestricted fund balance of £1.3 million, which the trustees attribute to a timing difference in recognizing grant liabilities for the following year, rather than a lack of underlying financial resources.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by A C Mole LLP. Discloses 5 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
• 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

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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Rachael Badger — Chief Executive (source)
• Julie Green — CEO (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (94% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/01/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• R L Glasspool Trustee Limited

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

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

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with G L TILLOTSON CHARITABLE TRUST.

• G L TILLOTSON CHARITABLE TRUST income £26k
• THE LINBURY TRUST income £5.7m
• THE GOULD CHARITABLE TRUST income £30k
• FROGNAL TRUST income £104k
• THE GLEDSWOOD CHARITABLE TRUST income £89k
• THE ALEXANDER MOSLEY CHARITABLE TRUST income £5.8m

Side by side with its peers

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