MR SAMUEL WHITBREAD'S TRUSTS

Registered charity 215545 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MR SAMUEL WHITBREAD'S (GREAT BARFORD ESTATE) TRUST

Relief of poverty for:- Brewers' Company Freemen and their families;- Former employees and their families from the Brewing industry in England & Wales- Organisations who benefit poor former employees of the Brewing industry in England & Wales - relief of poverty for individuals

Objects

FOR THE BENEFT OF POOR FREEMEN OF THE BREWERS COMPANY AND THEIR WIDOWS.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a total surplus of £32,384 for the year ended 31 December 2025, following a deficit in the prior year. Unrestricted reserves increased to £64,123, which the trustees aim to reduce by seeking new suitable beneficiaries. The charity has no employees and relies on the Brewers' Company for administration, with no material uncertainties reported regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• The Master and Keepers or Wardens and Commonalty of the Mystery or Art of Brewers of the City of London · trustee of 4 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BREWERS' COMPANY GENERAL CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE BREWERS' COMPANY GENERAL CHARITABLE TRUST income £203k
• THE BREAD AND BUTTER THING. income £7.8m
• CENTRAL HARDSHIP AND RELIEF TRUST income £2.9m
• THE BENEVOLENT FUND OF THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF BAKERS income £85k
• LILONGWE WELFARE TRUST income £28k
• WELLFIELD TRUST income £78k

Side by side with its peers

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