THE KATHERINE MARTIN CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 261887 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MRS KATHERINE MARTIN RESIDUARY ESTATE TRUST

Provision of grants to nominated charities as directed by the will of Katherine Martin. The Structure, Governance & Management of the Trust is set out in the Trust Annual Report & Financial Statements, which also disclose its financial performance and position. Trust activities are funded from investment income derived from pooled investment portfolios and its shareholding in unlisted investments.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Trust is in the process of an orderly wind-up and dissolution, having liquidated its investment portfolio into short-term liquid deposits. Total reserves stand at £18,232,000, with the majority held as cash or cash equivalents, sufficient to meet committed grants and administrative costs during the two-year dissolution period.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Smailes Goldie. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: not a going concern (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

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: 45.5% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• KMCT Trustee Limited

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANTS' GENERAL CHARITABLE TRUST FUND.

• THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANTS' GENERAL CHARITABLE TRUST FUND income £117k
• THE OFENHEIM CHARITABLE TRUST income £554k
• THE N SMITH CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT income £140k
• THE WANDS CHARITABLE TRUST income £376k
• INVESTREAM CHARITABLE TRUST income £153k
• THE KRISTINA MARTIN CHARITABLE TRUST income £243k

Side by side with its peers

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