THE GODINTON CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 268321 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity is a privately funded grant-making charity. It issues no appeals for funding.

Objects

SUCH CHARITABLE OBJECTS OR PURPOSES AS THE SETTLOR SHALL DURING HIS LIFETIME FROM TIME TO TIME DIRECT AND TO OR FOR SUCH CHARITABLE OBJECTS OR PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL AFTER THE DEATH OF THE SETTLOR IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME 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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £619,372 for the year ended 31 October 2024, driven by investment income and gains. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds totalled £7,432,009, and the trustees confirmed sufficient liquid assets to meet liabilities over the next 12 months with no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOHN LEIGH-PEMBERTON · trustee of 6 other charities
• THE HON WYNDHAM GEORGE PLUMPTRE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Terence James Bennett · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

Common questions

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Side by side with its peers

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