SYLVANUS CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 259520 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ENID MARGARET HAMLIN COUNTESS OF KINNOWLL TRUST KNOWN AS SYLVANUS CHARITABLE TRUST

WELFARE OF AND PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS AND ADVANCEMENT OF TRADITIONAL TEACHINGS AND PRACTICES OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AS TAUGHT AND ACCEPTED BEFORE THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL

Objects

FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES OR A MAJORITY OF THE TRUSTEES MAY (WITH THE CONSENT OF THE SETTLOR DURING HER LIFE AND AFTER HER DEATH IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION) FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

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: Religious Activities · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds sufficient reserves to continue its objectives, with unrestricted funds increasing in both the Sterling and Dollar sections. The trustees report that income is fully committed to charitable distributions, leaving little surplus for new appeals. The charity relies entirely on investment income and has no fundraising activities.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 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.

• 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)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• MR JOHN CROSFIELD VERNOR MILESchair · trustee of 7 other charities
• ALEXANDER DAVID GEMMILL
• MR WILFRID EDWARD VERNOR MILES · trustee of 10 other charities
• Matthew James Priday

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

Operates in: Mauritius · Switzerland · Throughout England And Wales · Zimbabwe

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• THE A S CHARITABLE TRUST income £618k
• SYLVANUS LYSONS CHARITY income £354k
• CATHOLIC CHARITABLE TRUST income £105k
• VITACHURCH income £112k
• THE 3 TS CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.5m
• THE MAURICE & VIVIEN THOMPSON CHARITABLE TRUST income £54k

Side by side with its peers

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