MISS E F RATHBONE CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 233241 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ELEANOR RATHBONE CHARITABLE TRUST

The Trust is a grant-giving charity. Charities and charitable projects focused on Merseyside. Charities benefiting women and unpopular causes but avoiding those with sectarian interest.

Objects

FOR 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: General Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: St. Helens, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £12,070,130, which the trustees consider unnecessary to maintain as a formal policy target. The charity generated £406,017 in investment income and expended £440,538 on charitable activities and governance, resulting in a net decrease in funds of £52,971 for the year. The trustees and auditors confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Mitchell Charlesworth (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.

• 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

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW LYLE RATHBONEchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• JENNY RATHBONE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Joan Elizabeth Bonenfant · trustee of 1 other charity
• LADY ANGELA MARY ELEANOR MORGAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• MARK EDWARD RATHBONE · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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• ELIZABETH RATHBONE CHARITY income £79k
• G M MORRISON CHARITABLE TRUST income £384k
• ARBUTHNOTT CHARITABLE TRUST income £111k
• THE M Y A CHARITABLE TRUST income £88k
• MYR CHARITABLE TRUST income £134k
• MRS B L ROBINSON'S CHARITABLE TRUST income £157k

Side by side with its peers

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