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.
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 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
Employees paid over £60,000: 1
“One employee received remuneration in excess of £60,000 (2024: One).” — page 34
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Largest income source: Investments (94% of income)
“94% of the total income of £2,406,355 derived from our investments.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: six months operating costs plus pension DoW liability (held: £610k)
“Our strategy is to keep the ‘designated reserves’ above the costs of the CARE defined benefit pension scheme Debt on Withdrawal (DoW) liability and general reserves at six months operating costs.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by A C Mole LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
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 4.8 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (24/01/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- 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
Common questions
Is R L GLASSPOOL CHARITY TRUST financially healthy?
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. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by A C Mole LLP.
Who funds R L GLASSPOOL CHARITY TRUST?
Funders whose own accounts filings name R L GLASSPOOL CHARITY TRUST as a grant recipient include THE MERCERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, CHARITY OF SIR RICHARD WHITTINGTON, THE EARL OF NORTHAMPTON'S CHARITY.
Known funders
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