THE ALICE ELLEN COOPER-DEAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 273298 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Foundation makes grants to charitable bodies in accordance with the objects set out in the trust deed. In addition to supporting local and national charities,mainly on a regular basis,the Foundation has made overseas grants to advance education,relieve poverty,sickness,and suffering some of which have been caused by conflict and disasters.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND RELIGION AND OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE OF BENEFIT TO THE COMMUNITY.

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: Dorset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated gross income of £1,600,539 to fund total grants and costs of £1,482,621, resulting in a net increase in unrestricted funds. The trustees confirm that resources are adequate and there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Scott Vevers Ltd. 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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 22/05/2024, 112 days after the 31/01/2024 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

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: 29.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DOUGLAS JAMES EDWARD NEVILLE-JONES · trustee of 1 other charity
• EMMA JANE BLACKBURN
• JOHN ROBERT BARRETT BOWDITCH · trustee of 1 other charity
• LINDA JEAN BOWDITCH
• Richard John King · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Martin Wedgwood

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

Operates in: Dorset · Ecuador · Eswatini · Ethiopia · Hampshire · Lesotho · Malawi · Nepal · Pakistan · Rwanda · Sierra Leone · Ukraine

Income and spending

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