ZURICH COMMUNITY TRUST (UK) LIMITED

Registered charity 266983 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We provide support to disadvantaged people to improve their quality of life. Major programmes are selected and not open to application, a regional grant programme provides smaller grants to local charities. Full details are available on www.zct.org.uk.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves were £1,970,000 at year-end, which the Trustees confirmed was in line with their agreed reserves policy. The charity reported a net surplus of £62,000 for the year, funded primarily by a £2,649,000 donation from Zurich UK businesses and £308,000 from charitable activities. The Trustees and auditors both confirmed that the charity has sufficient resources to continue as a going concern for at least twelve months.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Ernst & Young LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01154049

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Zurich Community Trust (UK) Ltd (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• WILLIS, Cadence Jean — director, appointed 14/05/2025on trustee list
• SKELTON, Ben Samuel — director, appointed 10/04/2025on trustee list
• JAKSIC, Drazen — director, appointed 10/03/2025on trustee list
• DUNSTER, Amy Elizabeth — director, appointed 08/08/2022on trustee list
• COLLINSON, Stephen Michael — director, appointed 10/04/2019on trustee list
• PEDEN, Richard — director, appointed 28/09/2017on trustee list
• ZURICH CORPORATE SECRETARY (UK) LIMITED — corporate secretary, appointed 03/07/2014

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~13.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (89% 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: 7.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Stephen Collinsonchair
• Amy Dunster
• Ben Skelton
• Cadence Willis
• Drazen Jaksic
• Richard Peden

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ZOCHONIS CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE ZOCHONIS CHARITABLE TRUST income £2.3m
• THE ZACCHAEUS 2000 TRUST income £956k
• A Z H R CHARITABLE TRUST income £164k
• THE Z.S.V. TRUST income £1.2m
• Livingston Charitable Trust income £792k
• THE ROZAC CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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