MRS R P TINDALL'S CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 250558 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To apply the trust fund and income therefrom for the benefit of such charitable purposes, charitable institutions or charitable foundations and in such manner and proportions as the trustees may determine. In particular, may relieve poverty, further the work of the Christian Church and advance education and may make grants for the welfare of the clergy and their dependants.

Objects

THE FURTHERANCE OF SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES, CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS OR CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONS AS TRUSTEES, WITH THE FOUNDER'S CONSENT, SHALL DECIDE.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM AND THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND

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 · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

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

Latest income

£116k

Latest spending

£143k

Registered

1967

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted funds increased to £4,388,806, supported by a total investment return of +5.3% and net gains of £114,027. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains a reserves policy aimed at producing sufficient annual income to cover grants and management costs, with no stated fixed monetary target. The trustees confirm 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

Reserves policy: a level of reserves that will produce an annual income sufficient to cover the grant applications and management and administration costs (reserves figure: £4.4m)

“It is the policy of the charity to maintain a level of reserves that will produce an annual income sufficient to cover the grant applications and management and administration costs.” — page 4

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Fletcher & Partners received book-keeping and accountancy fees net of VAT of £3,577 (2024: £3,253). Mrs N Halls (a trustee) is a partner, and Mr Giles Fletcher (a trustee) is a relation of a partner, in this firm.

“Fletcher & Partners received book-keeping and accountancy fees net of VAT of £3,577 (2024: £3,253). Mrs N Halls (a trustee) is a partner, and Mr Giles Fletcher (a trustee) is a relation of a partner, in this firm. Such payment for professional services is authorised under the Trust Deed.”

Per its FY2025 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.

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
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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity
Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity
Grant-making is its main activity

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

Trustees · trustee networks

GILES FLETCHERchair · trustee of 1 other charity
Claire Newman · trustee of 2 other charities
MICHAEL ROBERT FRANK NEWMAN · trustee of 1 other charity
NICOLA ANN HALLS · trustee of 1 other charity
Rev Canon Julian George Poppleton

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

Operates in: Egypt · Ireland · Israel · Lebanon · Madagascar · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Sudan · Tanzania · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£116k	£143k
31/12/2024	£119k	£116k
31/12/2023	£112k	£90k
31/12/2022	£112k	£126k
31/12/2021	£115k	£126k

Common questions

Is MRS R P TINDALL'S CHARITABLE TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted funds increased to £4,388,806, supported by a total investment return of +5.3% and net gains of £114,027. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains a reserves policy aimed at producing sufficient annual income to cover grants and management costs, with no stated fixed monetary target. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
KAHAL IMREI CHAIM LIMITED	1	£22k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE FIELDROSE CHARITABLE TRUST.

THE FIELDROSE CHARITABLE TRUST income £325k
THE BISSILL CHARITABLE TRUST income £27k
S AND R CHARITABLE TRUST income £39k
THE IAN MAIDENS CHARITABLE TRUST income £71k
THE MRS. HILDA BEER CHARITABLE TRUST income £57k
THE TREVOR CHINN CHARITABLE TRUST NO 2 income £31k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
MRS R P TINDALL'S CHARITABLE TRUST	£116k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE FIELDROSE CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£325k	—	above	—	no doubt
THE BISSILL CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£27k	—	above	—	no doubt
S AND R CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£39k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE IAN MAIDENS CHARITABLE TRUST FY2026	£71k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE MRS. HILDA BEER CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£57k	—	above	—	no doubt

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