SIR THOMAS WHITE'S CHARITY

Registered charity 218626 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide an income for other beneficiary charities

Objects

TO DISTRIBUTE PART OF INCOME FOR THE BENEFIT OF EACH OF THE CITIES OR TOWNS OF COVENTRY, NORTHAMPTON, LEICESTER, NOTTINGHAM AND WARWICK.

Area of benefit: SEE OBJECTS

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds total funds of £96,064,225, comprising restricted income funds of £580,410 and endowment funds of £95,483,815. The trustees report that the charity is prepared on a going concern basis with sufficient reserves to continue operations, noting that all reserves are either restricted or endowed, resulting in nil free reserves. The charity generated a net income of £3,932,441 for the year, supported by strong investment returns and stable property income.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Dafferns Audit Limited. 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 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
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

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 (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: 9.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Paul Derek Meredithchair
• ANTHONY EDWARD TYRE FORSYTH
• CHRISTOPHER PETER TRYE MA MSC FCA
• David Lowe
• Ian Sinclair Grindal · trustee of 1 other charity
• Martin Jonathan Gibbs
• RICHARD MICHAEL HARDY F R I C S
• ROGER VINCENT WIGLESWORTH DL FRICS
• Vanessa Jacka

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

Operates in: City Of London · Coventry City · Leicester City · Northamptonshire · Nottingham City · Warwickshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YAD VEACHISOMOCH L'CHAIM.

• YAD VEACHISOMOCH L'CHAIM income £834k
• RICHMOND TRUST FUND income £220k
• THE THOMAS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST income £946k
• MW (HO) FOUNDATION income £207k
• T & S TRUST FUND income £334k
• THE BLAIR TRUST FUND income £187k

Side by side with its peers

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