J N DERBYSHIRE TRUST

Registered charity 231907 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EX-DONO TRUST

The objectives of the Trust are the making of charitable donations for the promotion of health, development of physical improvement, advancement of education and the relief of poverty, distress and sickness.

Objects

GENERAL PROMOTION OF HEALTH, THE DEVELOPMENT OF PHYSICAL IMPROVEMENT, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS OR SICKNESS. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE GOVERNING INSTRUMENT).

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

Registered contact address: Nottingham, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total charity funds decreased by £211,575 to £5,603,610 due to a net outgoing resource of £66,874 and unrealised investment losses. The Trust does not actively fundraise, relying instead on investment income and capital growth to meet its grant-making objectives. Reserves are maintained at a level the Trustees consider sufficient to generate income for increasing grant demands.

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 5 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 handling
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00389833

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• MERCHANT, Roger Leonard — director, appointed 01/03/2026on trustee list
• WARMAN, Claire — director, appointed 20/03/2025on trustee list
• CARVER, William — director, appointed 14/03/2019on trustee list
• WHITTLE, Rose — director, appointed 19/10/2017on trustee list
• LITTLE, Andrew Neville — director, appointed 22/10/2015on trustee list
• GEORGE, Charles John — director, appointed 06/10/1998on trustee list
• HANSON, Emma — secretary, appointed 10/03/2016

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW NEVILLE LITTLE
• CHARLES JOHN GEORGE
• Claire Warman
• Roger Leonard Merchant · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rose Whittle · trustee of 1 other charity
• William Carver

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

Operates in: Nottinghamshire

Income and spending

Common questions

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE DERBYSHIRE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE DERBYSHIRE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES CHARITABLE TRUST income £149k
• MRS WINGFIELD'S CHARITABLE TRUST income £100k
• THE DERBYSHIRE ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST LIMITED income £1.2m
• JACK LIVINGSTONE CHARITABLE TRUST income £58k
• DERBYSHIRE HISTORIC BUILDINGS TRUST income £196k
• THE NESBITT-CLELAND TRUST income £174k

Side by side with its peers

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