THE SAMUEL SMITH'S AND SPENCER'S CHARITIES

Registered charity 240936 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SAMUEL SMITH, COVENTRY, THE CHARITY OF SAMUEL SMITH, The Smith Spencer Charity

Objects an ActivitiesThe principle objects and activities of the charity are:To pay pensions to needy persons who are resident in the City of Coventry and the Parish of Bedworth.To make payments to persons resident in the said City for relief in need.

Objects

1. THE PURCHASE OF BIBLES FOR DISTRIBUTION TO 20 YOUNG PERSONS OF WHOM 16 ARE RESIDENT IN THE CITY OF COVENTRY AND 4 RESIDENT IN THE AREA OF THE ANCIENT PARISH OF BEDWORTH IN THE COUNTY OF WARWICK. 2. IN PAYING PENSIONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS CONTAINED IN THE SCHEME 3. FOR RELIEF IN NEED.

Area of benefit: COVENTRY AND THE ANCIENT PARISH OF BEDWORTH

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of £160,015 for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven by significant unrealised gains on investments. Total net assets increased to £2,458,255, with unrestricted reserves (accumulated income fund) standing at £153,845. The trustees note that the charity is reliant on investment income to support its activities.

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 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/08/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Claire French
• Dr RICHARD JAMES BALLANTINE
• Ian Walter Simpson
• JSF GRINDLAY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jane Elizabeth Sarginson
• Paul John Moorcroft
• Stephen James Pannell

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

Operates in: Coventry City · Warwickshire

Income and spending

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