THE STEEL CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 272384 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Grants are made to a wide range of Charitable bodies and for other charitable purposes as the Trustees think fit

Objects

TO PAY OR APPLY OR CAUSE TO BE PAID OR APPLIED AT SUCH TIME OR TIMES AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR DISCRETION THINK FIT, THE INCOME, AND IF AND IN SO FAR AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL THINK FIT, THE CAPITAL OF THE TRUST FUND TO SUCH CHARITABLE BODIES, AND PARTICULARLY THOSE SPECIFIED IN THE SCHEDULE OR FOR SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

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.

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Registered contact address: Luton, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that total unrestricted funds amounted to £56,937,856, with a reserves policy to maintain liquid funds sufficient to meet anticipated commitments. The Trust reported a reduction in unrestricted funds of £623,958 for the year, primarily due to grants expenditure exceeding investment income.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by UHY Hacker Young. Discloses 5 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/01/2026)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (100% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Peter Daychair
• Jonathan Marcus Robert Finch · trustee of 1 other charity
• NICHOLAS EDWARD WEATHERLEY WRIGHT
• PHILIP CAZENOVE LAWFORD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sophie Emily Wilkins
• WENDY ELIZABETH BAILEY

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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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• THE STOW ALLEN TRUST income £34k
• THE STOCKWELL/CLIFFE CHARITABLE TRUST income £99k
• S STERLING CHARITABLE TRUST income £216k
• THE EARLE AND STUART CHARITABLE TRUST income £83k
• THE FORT TRUST income £29k
• TRELIX CHARITABLE TRUST income £55k

Side by side with its peers

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