The Crerar Family Trust

Registered charity 221335 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NORTH BRITISH HOTEL TRUST, THE CRERAR HOTELS TRUST, THE CRERAR TRUST · also registered in Scotland as SC013771 (OSCR)

Prevention/relief of poverty, advancement of education, health, citizenship or community development. To benefit those in need by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage or defined/non defined group/community. Beneficiaries: Other charities/voluntary bodies/registered community organisations working for the benefit of the above groups.

Objects

SUCH CHARITABLE TRUSTS AND SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE COUNCIL SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: East Lothian, Scotland (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free unrestricted reserves total £2,931,490, which the Trustees describe as 'minimal' relative to their policy of maintaining only enough for day-to-day running costs. The charity reported a net outgoing resource of £464,967 for the year, driven by significant charitable donations and investment losses, though cash reserves increased substantially from the prior year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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 handling
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2024)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (88% 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: 0.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Crerar Trustee Company 1 Limited
• Crerar Trustee Company 2 Limited

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

Operates in: Scotland

Income and spending

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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.

Charities like this

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

• THE ATHERTON FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST income £99k
• Mercer Family Charitable Foundation income £400k
• Coller Family Foundation income £770k
• CULLUM FAMILY TRUST income £788k
• CARERS TRUST income £13.0m
• THE FARRER TRUST income £238k

Side by side with its peers

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