THE SHELDON TRUST

Registered charity 242328 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To relieve poverty and distress in society concentrating on community projects and special needs groups in the West Midlands area. Nationally, Youth Development projects for young people 16 to 25 years, especially those who are NEET. Small grants for Holidays for the disadvantaged from the West Midlands and Greater London. Grants are made to registered charities and charitable organisations only.

Objects

TO OR FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AND IN SUCH PROPORTIONS AS SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED BY 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: Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cotswold, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted funds were £1,234,567 at the year end, representing a surplus for the period. The Trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by none. 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.

• 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
• 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/03/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (27/03/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• RACHEL BEATTONchair
• ANDREW BIDNELL
• Claire England
• JOHN KELYNGE ROBERT ENGLAND
• PAUL KELYNGE ENGLAND
• RUTH GIBBINS

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Coventry City · Dudley · Sandwell · Solihull · Throughout London · Wolverhampton

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 SHELTON TRUST 2018.

• THE SHELTON TRUST 2018 income £55k
• THE SIR JOHN MIDDLEMORE CHARITABLE TRUST income £58k
• LODDON SOCIAL ENTERPRISE LTD income £194k
• WHITEHAVEN COMMUNITY TRUST LIMITED income £916k
• SEFTON CHILDRENS TRUST income £71k
• WEST LEEDS DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £58k

Side by side with its peers

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