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Thomas Waley-Cohen Charitable Trust

Registered charity 272126 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ROBERT AND FELICITY WALEY-COHEN CHARITABLE TRUST

The Trust is concentrating resources on supporting young people with mental health challenges in the Banbury, Oxfordshire area including Warwickshire and South Northamptonshire while continuing to support the Oxford Children's Hospital and those arts organisations which the Trustees have supported for many years. There are unlikely to be resources available for new applicants in the near future.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Latest income
£284k
Latest spending
£400k
Registered
1976
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased to £2,695,786 following a net movement in funds of £248,132, driven by a net investment loss of £132,358 and charitable expenditure exceeding income. The trustees report a reserves policy to apply income year on year, retaining only amounts sufficient to cover outstanding professional and administrative fees.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: apply the income year on year as it is received, so that expenditure broadly matches income received, other than retaining an amount sufficient to cover any outstanding and accrued professional and administrative fees (held: £2.7m)
“The Trustees policy is to apply the income year on year as it is received, so that expenditure broadly matches income received, other than retaining an amount sufficient to cover any outstanding and accrued professional and administrative fees.” — page 5
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
05/04/2025£284k£400k
05/04/2024£251k£314k
05/04/2023£356k£285k
05/04/2022£307k£286k
05/04/2021£200k£243k

Common questions

Is Thomas Waley-Cohen Charitable Trust financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased to £2,695,786 following a net movement in funds of £248,132, driven by a net investment loss of £132,358 and charitable expenditure exceeding income. The trustees report a reserves policy to apply income year on year, retaining only amounts sufficient to cover outstanding professional and administrative fees. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
THE JEANNINE VASSILIOU CHARITABLE TRUST1£1k

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

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
Thomas Waley-Cohen Charitable Trust£284k—0unclear—no doubt
THE BENHAM CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT FY2025£325k—0unclear—no doubt
BUNGAY MEDICAL CENTRE CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION (CIO) FY2025£241k—0unclear—no doubt
HIMAT TANNA CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£126k—0unclear—no doubt
HUNTINGDON FREEMEN'S TRUST FY2025£896k—0unclear—no doubt
LORICA TRUST LIMITED FY2025£1.1m—0unclear—no doubt

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