EDNA BROWN CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT

Registered charity 261397 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MRS E E BROWN CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT

The Trust is to be applied by the Trustees to benefit such charitable instituions or objects or purposes as the trustees may at their total discretion from time to time decide.

Objects

TO APPLY THE INCOME OF THE TRUST FUND IN THE PAYMENT OF DONATIONS OR SUBSCRIPTIONS TO SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTION OR INSTITUTIONS FOR ALL OR ANY OF THE CHARITABLE OBJECTS OR PURPOSES THEROF OR TO OR FOR SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR DISCRETION FROM TIME OT TIME THINK FIT AND DETERMINE.

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.

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Latest income
£36k
Latest spending
£30k
Registered
1970
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £249,544, which the Trustees consider prudent to sustain grant levels. Per the trustees' report, the overall finances are described as sound, despite a net loss on investments of £43,395 reducing total funds.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: prudent to hold income reserves of this order (held: £250k)
“The Trustees consider it to be prudent to hold income reserves of this order partly so that the level of grants in the immediate future can be sustained”
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.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
05/04/2025£36k£30k
05/04/2024£35k£31k
05/04/2023£35k£34k
05/04/2022£34k£33k
05/04/2021£26k£34k

Common questions

Is EDNA BROWN CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £249,544, which the Trustees consider prudent to sustain grant levels. Per the trustees' report, the overall finances are described as sound, despite a net loss on investments of £43,395 reducing total funds. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.