THE BARBER CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 269544 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity was started in 1976. It was recently reopened with more trustees.Most funds are allocated for projects in Madagascar.External grant applications are not being considered.

Objects

TO PAY AND APPLY THE TRUST FUND TO SUCH CHARITIES OR FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURSOSES AS SETTLOR MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DIREST OR IN DEFAULT OF DIRECTION, AS TRUSTEES MAY DETERMINE.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves held were £8,887 at the end of the period, with £7,352 in a Co-Op Bank account and £1,535 in cash. The trustees note that these reserves are ready to be sent or carried in early 2026 to complete the building of the Science Block and pay for salaries and the food programme.

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

What the accounts disclose

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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/10/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Martin Paul Barberchair
• Mary Patrica Barber

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

Operates in: Madagascar · Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.