THE LEANDER TRUST

Registered charity 284631 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

In broad terms:- to advance the education of young people by helping with their physical education by the provision of facilities- including grant awards- to enable and encourage rowing and sculling; and- to help with the provision of facilities for recreation for those who need such facilities because of their youth, social or economic circumstances;focusing on rowing and sculling.

Objects

(1) TO ADVANCE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PERSONS WHO ARE PUPILS AT SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES IN ANY PART OF THE BRITISH ISLES BY ENSURING THAT DUE ATTENTION IS GIVEN TO THE PHYSICAL EDUCATION OF SUCH PUPILS AS WELL AS TO HE DEVELOPMENT AND OCCUPATION OF THEIR MINDS AND WITH A VIEW TO FURTHERNG THAT OBJECT TO ORGANISE OR PROVIDE (OR ASSIST IN THE ORGANISATION AND POROVISION OF) FACILITIES WHICH WILL ENAGLE AND ENCOURAGE SUCH PUPILS TO ROW AND/OR TO SCULL. (2) IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE TO ORGANISEOR PROVIDE (OR ASSIST IN THE ORGANISATION OR PROVISION OF) FACILITIES FOR RECREATION IN ANY PART OF THE BRITISH ISLES (WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE PERSONS FOR WHOM THE SAME ARE PROVIDED) FOR PERSONS WHO BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES.(3) SUCH OBJECTS AND PURPOSES IN THE BRITISH ISLES BEING OBJECTS AND PURPOSES EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

Area of benefit: THE BRITISH ISLES

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The Leander Trust reported a net movement in funds of £71,121 for the year ended 31 March 2026, driven by significant investment gains. The charity maintains unrestricted free reserves of £246,223, which the trustees state is higher than their policy target of one year's unrestricted expenditure. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis, with trustees expressing reasonable expectation of adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

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Policies the charity declares

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• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/06/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• RUPERT JOHN ALEXANDER FANEchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Edward Hugh Bainbridge
• Jack Robert Alexander Beaumont
• Jeremy Dennis Randall · trustee of 1 other charity
• Joanna Mary Turrell

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire · Oxfordshire · Reading · Slough · Surrey · Throughout London · West Berkshire · Windsor And Maidenhead · Wokingham

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• STRINGER TRUST income £98k
• LEANDER (KINGSTON) SEA SCOUT GROUP income £57k
• LINDLEY EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED income £1.7m
• LEARN N GROW income £143k
• THE LACROSSE FOUNDATION income £44k
• LONGTOWN OUTDOOR LEARNING TRUST income £776k

Side by side with its peers

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