TALBOT VILLAGE TRUST

Registered charity 249349 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Generally the Trustees' financial assistance is focused on capital projects which help the young, elderly or generally disadvantaged within their area of benefit which is restricted to the administrative districts of Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch, East Dorset and Isle of Purbeck

Objects

FOR ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT

Area of benefit: TALBOT VILLAGE

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted undesignated reserves were £10,943,158, which the Trustees consider more than sufficient. Total funds increased to £78,214,239, supported by significant investment growth and rental income, with no material uncertainties identified 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 PKF Francis Clark. 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.

• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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)

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Caroline Cooban — Director of Giving (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~35.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (99% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• EARL OF SHAFTESBURYchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Aldred Robert Alexander Drummond · trustee of 1 other charity
• CHRISTOPHER JAMES LEES · trustee of 1 other charity
• Caspar Alexander Rock · trustee of 1 other charity
• Cecilia Mary Bufton · trustee of 1 other charity
• GEORGE WILLIAM OWEN TAPPS GERVIS MEYRICK · trustee of 2 other charities
• Mary Elizabeth Riall · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nicholas Andrew John Allen · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Anthony Cutler · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bournemouth · Dorset · Poole

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE TALBOT VILLAGE ALMSHOUSES TRUST.

• THE TALBOT VILLAGE ALMSHOUSES TRUST income £49k
• TOTTENHAM DISTRICT CHARITY income £115k
• THE MARY JANE ENTWISTLE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £59k
• TABOR CHARITABLE TRUST income £31k
• THE ELSIE DAVIS TRUST income £193k
• THE STRANGWARD TRUST income £267k

Side by side with its peers

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