PHILIP KING CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 263992 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PHILIP KING CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT

GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES

Objects

TO PAY OR APPLY TO SUCH CHARITIES OR FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AND IN SUCH PROPORTIONS AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES DECIDE.

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.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: South Cambridgeshire, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£220k
Latest spending
£604k
Registered
1972
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that net assets decreased from £13.4 million to £12.1 million due to a £1.0 million investment loss and £0.5 million in grants. The trustees note that the trust is entirely reliant on investment returns and has reduced grant-making to a more sustainable level. There are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Brindley Millen 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.

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 05/04/2025

  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 05/04/2024

  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 05/04/2023

  • Grant-making is its main activity

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 05/04/2023 (received 06/02/2024, 1 day after the 05/02/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Israel · Kenya

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
05/04/2025£220k£604k
05/04/2024£211k£610k
05/04/2023£198k£828k
05/04/2022£202k£833k
05/04/2021£199k£1.0m

Common questions

Is PHILIP KING CHARITABLE TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that net assets decreased from £13.4 million to £12.1 million due to a £1.0 million investment loss and £0.5 million in grants. The trustees note that the trust is entirely reliant on investment returns and has reduced grant-making to a more sustainable level. There are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Brindley Millen Limited.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ROGER AND INGRID PILKINGTON CHARITABLE TRUST.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
PHILIP KING CHARITABLE TRUST£220k—0unclear—no doubt
THE ROGER AND INGRID PILKINGTON CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£82k—0unclear—no doubt
THE WOODWARD CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£245k—0unclear—no doubt
FITTON TRUST FY2025£100k—0unclear—no doubt
THE LINBURY TRUST FY2025£5.7m£110,001 - £120,0001above—no doubt
PETER DIXON CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£132k—0unclear—no doubt

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