THE ALEXANDER PIGOTT WERNHER MEMORIAL TRUST

Registered charity 261362 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Registered charities only for Blind and Deaf

Objects

TOWARDS THE PREVENTION AND CURE OF BLINDNESS AND DEAFNESS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND IN PARTICULAR FOR RESEARCH IN CONNECTION THEREWITH BY FINANCING MEDICAL MEN AND STUDENTS WITHIN THE EMPIRE TO STUDY THE METHODS AND PRACTICES IN ALL COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM AND BRITISH EMPIRE

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 · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £20,603 for the year ended 5 April 2025, driven by investment income of £36,200 against expenditure of £15,500. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains a prudent investment policy to fund its grant-making activities, with unrestricted reserves increasing to £135,367. The independent examiner confirmed that the accounts reflect the charity's state of affairs and comply with the Charities Act 1993.

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.

• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anastasia Lilla Sophie Pejacsevich
• Nadezhda Galitzine
• Sophie Natasha Morrison

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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