SIR SAMUEL SCOTT OF YEWS TRUST

Registered charity 220878 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Trustees policy is to make grants to or for the benefit of medical research

Objects

GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES AT THE DISCRETION OF THE TRUSTEES.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

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

Latest income
£153k
Latest spending
£202k
Registered
1964
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total income was £151,960 against outgoing expenditure of £303,895, resulting in a net deficit for the year. However, the trustees transferred £112,338 from expendable endowment funds to cover the deficit on unrestricted income funds, maintaining total net assets at £7,319,772. The trustees consider there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 05/04/2025

  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 05/04/2024

  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 05/04/2023

  • Grant-making is its main activity

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
05/04/2025£153k£202k
05/04/2024£155k£304k
05/04/2023£146k£240k
05/04/2022£205k£1.2m
05/04/2021£105k£221k

Common questions

Is SIR SAMUEL SCOTT OF YEWS TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that total income was £151,960 against outgoing expenditure of £303,895, resulting in a net deficit for the year. However, the trustees transferred £112,338 from expendable endowment funds to cover the deficit on unrestricted income funds, maintaining total net assets at £7,319,772. The trustees consider there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2024 accounts were independently examined.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
SUICIDE & CO1£9k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE DE BRYE CHARITABLE TRUST.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
SIR SAMUEL SCOTT OF YEWS TRUST£153k—0unclear—no doubt
THE DE BRYE CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£122k—0below—no doubt
THE SIR GEOFFREY TODD TRUST FY2025£45k——above—no doubt
SCOTT (EREDINE) CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£653k—0above—no doubt
THE JOHN SCOTT CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£214k—0unclear—no doubt
S STERLING CHARITABLE TRUST FY2026£216k—0unclear—no doubt

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