W H SMITH BENEVOLENT FUND

Registered charity 262581 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provide financial support to both serving and retired members of staff along with dependent family members who find themselves in severe financial difficulties, through no fault of their own. Provide recuperative holidays following long term sickness or after major surgery and support with palliative holidays for staff.

Objects

GRANTS TO EMPLOYEES AND EX-EMPLOYEES OF THE W H SMITH GROUP AND THEIR DEPENDENTS, BEING POOR AND NECESSITOUS

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves totalled £5,876,398 at year-end, an increase from the prior year. The charity relies on investment income to meet grant expenditure and running costs, noting that it undertakes no fundraising activities and receives little or no public donations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Auditco Limited. 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.

• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Hadley Graham Watling
• Jennifer Theresa Angela Elliott
• Michal Pawel Blaszewski

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

Operates in: Australia · France · Germany · Guernsey · Hong Kong · Ireland · Isle Of Man · Italy · Jersey · Malaysia · New Zealand · Northern Ireland

Income and spending

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