THE CARPENTERS COMPANY CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 276996 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity supports the Building Crafts College through an annual grant and also makes grants to other charities and individuals within the building craft.

Objects

TO APPLY BOTH CAPITAL AND INCOME FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH CHARITIES AND FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN SUCH MANNER AS THE COURT OF ASSISTANTS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DIRECT.

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves (general funds) were £251,644, which the trustees consider sufficient as the charity does not hold free reserves in excess of the following year’s planned grant payments. Total net assets stood at £43,362,981, comprising significant endowment and designated funds, with the charity reporting a net income and movement in funds of £1,337,701 for the year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. 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.

• 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
• 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 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (61% 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: 19.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• MICHAEL ROBERT MATHEWSchair
• Alistair Michael Gregory-Smith
• MARTIN JONATHAN SAMUEL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rachel Felicity Bower

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF BUILDERS' MERCHANTS CHARITABLE FUND.

• THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF BUILDERS' MERCHANTS CHARITABLE FUND income £89k
• THE CARPENTER CHARITABLE TRUST income £65k
• THE C J M CHARITABLE TRUST income £100k
• THE CUNMONT CHARITABLE TRUST income £2.4m
• THE FARMERS' COMPANY CHARITABLE FUND income £318k
• THE BREWERS' COMPANY GENERAL CHARITABLE TRUST income £203k

Side by side with its peers

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