SUE HAMMERSON CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 235196 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SUE HAMMERSON CHARITABLE TRUST G, SUE HAMMERSON'S CHARITABLE TRUST · filing overdue (register status)

The charity makes grants to other charitable organisations

Objects

SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES OR INSTITUTIONS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR DISCRETION THINK FIT. EXERCISING THEIR DISCRETION THE TRUSTEES ARE BEQUESTED BUT NOT REQUIRED TO GIVE PARTICULAR CONSIDERATION ON THE ADVANCEMENT OF MEDICAL LEARNING AND RESEARCH AND TO THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND POVERTY.

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 · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£161k
Latest spending
£206k
Registered
1970
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's net assets amounted to £9,466,917 at the year end, with free reserves standing at £190,686. Per the trustees' report, these reserves are slightly above the desired level of one year’s charitable expenditure. The trustees confirm that the level of income and expenditure and the year-end financial position were as expected.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: one year’s charitable expenditure (reserves figure: £191k)
“It is the policy of the charity to maintain its income reserves at a level equivalent to one year’s charitable expenditure. Currently, this is approximately £87,713.” — page 4
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Common trustees with connected charities
“The trust shares some common trustees with the Sue Hammerson Foundation and the Sue and Lew Hammerson Charitable Trust.” — page 3
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 05/04/2024

  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 05/04/2023

  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 05/04/2022

  • Grant-making is its main activity

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 05/04/2024 (received 06/02/2026, 366 days after the 05/02/2025 due date); year ending 05/04/2023 (received 03/09/2024, 211 days after the 05/02/2024 due date); year ending 05/04/2021 (received 10/03/2022, 33 days after the 05/02/2022 due date).

1 further annual return is past its due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
05/04/2025——
05/04/2024£161k£206k
05/04/2023£132k£208k
05/04/2022£116k£238k
05/04/2021£138k£225k

Common questions

Is SUE HAMMERSON CHARITABLE TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity's net assets amounted to £9,466,917 at the year end, with free reserves standing at £190,686. Per the trustees' report, these reserves are slightly above the desired level of one year’s charitable expenditure. The trustees confirm that the level of income and expenditure and the year-end financial position were as expected. Its FY2024 accounts were independently examined.

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
BRONGATE LTD1£15k
DILLHAVEN LIMITED1£12k
SABENO LIMITED1£4k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SUE AND LEW HAMMERSON CHARITABLE TRUST.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
SUE HAMMERSON CHARITABLE TRUST£161k—0above—no doubt
THE SUE AND LEW HAMMERSON CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£61k—0below—no doubt
THE SUE HAMMERSON FOUNDATION FY2025£56k—0unclear—no doubt
THE C J M CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£100k—0unclear—no doubt
R M SALES CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£0—0unclear—no doubt
SAMEACH FY2025£80k—0unclear—no doubt

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