THE AUSTIN AND HOPE PILKINGTON TRUST

Registered charity 255274 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity makes grants to Charitable Institutions on the basis of a three year rolling criteria cycle. All applications should be through the website.

Objects

FOR THE FURTHERANCE OF SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES AND IF MORE THAN ONE IN SUCH PROPORTIONS AND IN SUCH MANNER IN ALL RESPECTS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Liverpool, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £12,979,903, supported by significant net gains on investments of £937,339. The trustees maintain a policy of preserving capital value in real terms to generate future revenue, noting that capital can be used to supplement revenue shortfalls if temporary. The charity reports 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 DJH Audit Limited. Discloses 5 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
• 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
• 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)

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Eleanor Phoebe Jane Stride
• Harry Shankar
• Louis Benedict Shankar
• PENNY SIAN BADOWSKA

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Sir Alastair Pilkington Charitable Trust.

• Sir Alastair Pilkington Charitable Trust income £39k
• DR L H A PILKINGTON'S CHARITABLE TRUST income £27k
• THE ROGER AND INGRID PILKINGTON CHARITABLE TRUST income £82k
• SIR HARRY PILKINGTON FUND income £183k
• CECIL PILKINGTON CHARITABLE TRUST income £539k
• THE PILLING TRUST FUND income £351k

Side by side with its peers

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