SIR ROBERT SPEED CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 281440 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE SPEED CHARITABLE TRUST

The trust is held by the Trustee upon trust to apply the same (at the direction of the Council) either as capital or income for the purpose of providing recreational facilities for the physical education and development of persons who are from time to time Resident Junior Members of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

Objects

PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES FOR PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONS WHO ARE FROM TIME TO TIME RESIDENT JUNIOR MEMBERS OF UNIVERSITIES OF OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Trust's total net value increased by 0.78% to £850,141 for the year ended 30 June 2025. The Trust distributed £59,933 to university golf clubs, funded by donations and investment income. The Council maintains unrestricted general funds of £32,696, which is within its stated policy of holding no more than £50,000.

Automated summary of the FY2025 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE RUGBY SCHOOL GENERAL CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE RUGBY SCHOOL GENERAL CHARITABLE TRUST income £358k
• BOURNEMOUTH SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST income £107k
• THE SUTTON PENDLE CHARITABLE TRUST income £75k
• THE BRITISH SPORTS TRUST income £2.3m
• R S CHARITABLE TRUST income £227k
• HENLEY ROYAL REGATTA CHARITABLE TRUST income £212k

Side by side with its peers

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