THE BOWER TRUST

Registered charity 283025 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

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

Objects

SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTION OR INSTITUTIONS OR SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL THINK FIT.

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: Winchester, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

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

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.

• Investment
• 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.

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

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• THE KOBLER TRUST income £86k
• THE BREWERS FOUNDATION income £232k
• THE BOTHWELL CHARITABLE TRUST income £123k
• BOWYER FAMILY MEMORIAL TRUST income £46k
• THE BERNHARD HEUBERGER CHARITABLE TRUST income £90k
• THE BALLINGER CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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