THE G C GIBSON CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 258710 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The trustees make donations to registered charities operating throughout the United Kingdom. The majority of donations are recurring as the trustees recognise the importance of helping charities with their core expenditure. However consideration is also given to capital or special projects.

Objects

FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES, CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS OR CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONS AND IN SUCH PROPORTIONS AND SUBJECT TO SUCH TERMS AND CONDITIONS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME IN THEIR ABSOLUTE AND UNCONTROLLED DISCRETION DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: UNRESTRICTED

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 · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £16,702,285, representing a decrease from the previous year's £17,126,567 due to a net expenditure of £424,282. The charity generated £560,424 in investment income and distributed £564,306 in charitable grants during the year. The trustees confirmed that the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Grahame J Harbour Limited. 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
• 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.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 01/03/2023, 29 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (100% 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: 11.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Martin Gibsonchair · trustee of 5 other charities
• ANNA DALRYMPLE
• Edward Norman Simon Gibson
• LUCY KELLY
• Thomas Maxwell Richards Homfray

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 THE JAMES GIBSON CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE JAMES GIBSON CHARITABLE TRUST income £45k
• G M MORRISON CHARITABLE TRUST income £384k
• G L TILLOTSON CHARITABLE TRUST income £26k
• THE SIMON GIBSON CHARITABLE TRUST income £29.1m
• E S G ROBINSON CHARITABLE TRUST income £68k
• THE THORESBY CHARITABLE TRUST income £59k

Side by side with its peers

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