THE BOWER TRUST

Registered charity 283025 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Activities involve making grants in the main for general charitable purposes .

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Latest income

£154k

Latest spending

£68k

Registered

1981

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of £26,579 for the year ended 5 April 2025, resulting in total funds of £1,737,711. The unrestricted reserve balance reduced to £1,650,845, while restricted reserves stood at £86,866. The trustees confirmed that resources are adequate for continuing operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: retain a level of investments to produce income for grants and subscriptions (held: £1.7m)

“The Trustees intend to retain a level of investments to produce income for grants and subscriptions.” — page 5

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Register events

Received assets from another charity (16/07/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

MRS TINA BENFIELDchair · trustee of 3 other charities
JACK CHRISTOPHER BENFIELD
ROBERT DAVID BENFIELD

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
05/04/2025	£154k	£68k
05/04/2024	£62k	£31k
05/04/2023	£72k	£33k
05/04/2022	£44k	£42k
05/04/2021	£45k	£50k

Common questions

Is THE BOWER TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of £26,579 for the year ended 5 April 2025, resulting in total funds of £1,737,711. The unrestricted reserve balance reduced to £1,650,845, while restricted reserves stood at £86,866. The trustees confirmed that resources are adequate for continuing operations. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds THE BOWER TRUST?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE BOWER TRUST as a grant recipient include THE GEORGE CADBURY TRUST (GEORGE HENRY T AND LAURENCE J CADBURY SECTIONS).

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE GEORGE CADBURY TRUST (GEORGE HENRY T AND LAURENCE J CADBURY SECTIONS)	FY2024	£3k

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
UK government	09/03/2022	£19k	Culture Recovery Fund: Emergency Resource Support

Charities like this

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

THE BORZELLO TRUST income £350k
BROOME FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST income £900k
BONAMY CHARITABLE TRUST income £214k
Boodles Charitable Trust income £1.2m
THE HOWE GREEN TRUST income £107k
FUTURE SCOPE CHARITABLE TRUST income £236k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE BOWER TRUST	£154k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE BORZELLO TRUST FY2025	£350k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
BROOME FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£900k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
BONAMY CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£214k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
Boodles Charitable Trust FY2025	£1.2m	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE HOWE GREEN TRUST FY2025	£107k	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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