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FRANCIS C SCOTT CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 232131 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Grant giving

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£1.2m
Latest spending
£1.5m
Registered
1964
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves were negative at £800,628 as of 31 December 2025, a position the Trustees attribute to the accrual of future grant commitments rather than operational deficits. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £1,627,517 for the year, driven by significant investment gains, and maintains a total asset base of over £41 million. The Trustees confirmed that the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate and that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue its operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Investment income (77% of income)
“Investment income received during the year was £1,540,030” — page 9
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: no designated reserve fund (held: £-801k)
“The Trustees are satisfied that this is a sensible approach in relation to annual investment income and that their investment strategy is sufficiently robust to obviate the need for a designated reserve fund.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Legal costs incurred from Wrigleys Solicitors, an entity in which Trustee Laura Moss is a partner.
“During the year, the trust has incurred legal costs of £17,040 from Wrigleys Solicitors, an entity in which Laura Moss is a partner.” — page 30
“An annual donation of £5,200 was made to the Liverpool Charity and Voluntary Services to be spent on charitable causes at the Chair's discretion.” — page 30
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Donation to Liverpool Charity and Voluntary Services at the Chair's discretion.
“During the year, the trust has incurred legal costs of £17,040 from Wrigleys Solicitors, an entity in which Laura Moss is a partner.” — page 30
“An annual donation of £5,200 was made to the Liverpool Charity and Voluntary Services to be spent on charitable causes at the Chair's discretion.” — page 30
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Dodd & Co Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Total income
£1.2m
Total spending
£1.5m
Cost of raising funds
£139k
Reserves (reported)
£0
Employees
4

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 (99% 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: 11.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Cumbria · Lancashire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2025£1.2m£1.5m
31/12/2024£877k£2.0m
31/12/2023£558k£1.5m
31/12/2022£454k£1.6m
31/12/2021£455k£1.6m

Common questions

Is FRANCIS C SCOTT CHARITABLE TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves were negative at £800,628 as of 31 December 2025, a position the Trustees attribute to the accrual of future grant commitments rather than operational deficits. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £1,627,517 for the year, driven by significant investment gains, and maintains a total asset base of over £41 million. The Trustees confirmed that the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate and that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue its operations. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Dodd & Co Audit Limited.

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
THE KNIGHTLAND FOUNDATION1£80k
SF FOUNDATION1£33k

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

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
FRANCIS C SCOTT CHARITABLE TRUST£1.2m——unclear—no doubt
THE FRIEDA SCOTT CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£330k—0unclear—no doubt
INVESTREAM CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£153k—0above—no doubt
SCHREIBER CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£820k—0unclear—no doubt
MEKADSHEI SHEVEI CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£156k—0unclear—no doubt
FUTURE SCOPE CHARITABLE TRUST FY2024£236k—0above—no doubt

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