WESTON PROVIDENT FUND

Registered charity 283311 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The purpose of the charity is to assist with the welfare of employees and former employees of the Associated British Foods Group and their dependants by relieving poverty.

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Trustees do not have a policy for maintaining reserves, with all accumulated investment income treated as Unrestricted Funds. The Fund holds highly liquid pooled investments, allowing the Trustees to withdraw funds as necessary to meet payments. The independent auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited. Discloses 2 of 6 completeness components.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~15.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (100% 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: 6.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Helen Byrne
• Kari Rodgers
• Nigel John Fawcett
• Susan Rachel Whalley

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with The British Airways Benevolent Fund.

• The British Airways Benevolent Fund income £120k
• PRUDENTIAL STAFF CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.2m
• WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF INSURERS CHARITABLE TRUST income £351k
• BT BENEVOLENT FUND income £1.6m
• THE CECIL AND ALAN PILKINGTON TRUST FUND income £3.8m
• THE CANTOR FOUNDATION (UK) income £3.9m

Side by side with its peers

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