THE DOUGLAS MARTIN TRUST

Registered charity 267876 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity distributes small sums of money to cases of individual hardship or need - BUT only to cases known to the trustees or through organisations known to the trustees. Unsolicited requests will not be supported or responded to. All grants are dealt with by written communication with any trustee.The charity also owns a small parcel of land managed for biodiversity.

Objects

TO PAY OR APPLY THE INCOME FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES ONLY AT SUCH TIMES IN SUCH PROPORTIONS AND IN SUCH MANNER IN ALL RESPECTS AS THE DONOR MAY SPECIFY OR THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR UNCONTROLLED DISCRETION THINK FIT.

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 · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Windsor and Maidenhead, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that expenditure exceeded income by £5,800.23 for the year, resulting in a deficit. However, total funds increased from £638,144.18 to £641,163.78 due to the sale of investment units and asset revaluation surpluses. The trustees confirm that accounting records were kept in accordance with the Act and no material issues were identified during the examination.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

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.

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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 05/04/2025 (received 06/02/2026, 1 day after the 05/02/2026 due date); year ending 05/04/2022 (received 07/02/2023, 2 days after the 05/02/2023 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

• Catherine Miriam Pollard
• JONATHAN HAROLD EVANS
• Jill Elizabeth Butler · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Barnet · Bath And North East Somerset · Devon · Surrey

Income and spending

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