THE DOWAGER COUNTESS ELEANOR PEEL TRUST

Registered charity 214684 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Trust Deed provides that the income of the Trust Fund (and in certain cases the capital) should be paid or applied for such charitable purposes as the Trustees should think fit. The Trustees have particular regard for medical charities, charities for old people and those who have fallen on evil days through no fault of their own, and the charities specified in the Schedule to the Trust Deed.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that total funds decreased to £19,294,170, driven predominantly by adverse market movements in the investment portfolio which fell by £1,774,101. The Trustees note that due to continued poor performance of the CCLA COIF investment fund, an external adviser has been appointed to analyze performance drivers. The charity reports a net surplus of £37,168 before investment gains, with unrestricted reserves of £149,426.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Mitchell Charlesworth (Audit) Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (100% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• CATHERINE MARY BURGESS
• David John Parkinson · trustee of 1 other charity
• PROFESSOR CHENG-HOCK TOH CBE
• PROFESSOR COLIN PETER SIBLEY
• PROFESSOR MARGARET ANNE PEARSON

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PEWTERERS' SEAHORSE CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE PEWTERERS' SEAHORSE CHARITABLE TRUST income £111k
• WILLIAM FRANK PINN CHARITABLE TRUST income £488k
• CECIL PILKINGTON CHARITABLE TRUST income £539k
• THE ROGER DE HAAN CHARITABLE TRUST income £269k
• MEDWAY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST CHARITABLE FUND income £253k
• THE NOEL SWEENEY FOUNDATION income £304k

Side by side with its peers

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