BEDFORDSHIRE CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 234329 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as IBBETT TRUST, THE TRUST

The granting of donations for charitable purposes

Objects

THE COMPANY’S OBJECTS (“THE OBJECTS”) ARE:TO RETAIN OR TO PAY AND APPLY ANY PROPERTY FOR THE TIME BEING RECEIVED BY THE COMPANY AND THE PROPERTY FOR THE TIME BEING REPRESENTING THE SAME AND THE INCOME OF ALL SUCH PREMISES TO OR FOR SUCH PURPOSES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE COMMITTEE OF THE COMPANY MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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 · Accommodation/housing · Religious Activities · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bedford, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £172,403 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by charitable expenditure exceeding income. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £23,591,641, and the trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability 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 HW Bedford Ltd. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00802236

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.

• WARD, Richard John — director, appointed 09/02/2026on trustee list
• IBBETT, Peter John — director, appointed 02/08/2021on trustee list
• IBBETT, Vicki Anita, Dr — director, appointed 02/08/2021on trustee list
• THOMPSON, Mark — director, appointed 11/05/2020on trustee list
• IBBETT, Margaret — director, appointed 03/05/2018on trustee list
• BEDDOES, Christina — secretary, appointed 05/11/2018

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

11 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (10 freehold); recorded price paid £540k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2023)

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christina Beddoes · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Vicki Anita Ibbett
• Margaret Ibbett
• Mark Thompson
• Peter John Ibbett
• Richard John Ward

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

Operates in: Bedford · Central Bedfordshire

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 GB TRUST.

• THE GB TRUST income £57k
• TYNESIDE CHARITABLE TRUST income £30k
• LIMOGES CHARITABLE TRUST income £69k
• THE ZECHARIA CHARITABLE TRUST income £55k
• MENACHEM GENERAL CHARITABLE TRUST income £67k
• MILLWARD CHARITABLE TRUST income £47k

Side by side with its peers

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