THE SCARFE CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 275535 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Trust supports the Arts, welfare and environmental charities primarily in Suffolk. Grants are rarely made where there is no local connection.

Objects

FOR SUCH CHARITIES OR FOR SUCH CHARITABLE OBJECTS ANDIN SUCH MANNER AND PROPORTION AND SUBJECT TO SUCH CONDITIONS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION 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.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £2,190,490, which the trustees note enable them to continue distributing income to charitable organizations. The trustees' report indicates that there is no legal requirement to hold reserves, but the current level provides stability for ongoing grant-making activities. The charity generated a net movement in funds of £237,851 for the year, driven primarily by investment gains.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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 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
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Daniel Aragorn Wright
• FRASER HUGH THOMAS
• JOHN PATRICK MCCARTHY
• Jonathan Rupert Fison
• SEAN FRANCIS McTERNAN

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

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