TADWORTH AND WALTON OVERSEAS AID TRUST

Registered charity 286076 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as T W O A T

We give support to selected projects overseas, especially those in which local people are involved. We help communities in poor countries with funds for small scale projects that can create a long-lasting benefit. Typically these include the provision of medical, educational and community facilities and the promotion of new techniques for irregation, education and organic farming.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY IN THE THIRD WORLD.

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: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Reigate and Banstead, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £6,876 for the year ended 30 September 2025, with unrestricted reserves increasing to £48,047. The trustees note that fundraising activities held up remarkably well despite a catastrophic year for overseas aid generally, though they caution that recent high income included one-off matched funding. The charity maintains sufficient funds to fulfill commitments to ongoing projects.

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 5 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• MR MICHAEL CARY FOXchair
• ALAN GEORGE CORRIGALL
• Adrienne Clare Elliott
• Antony Victor Hawker · trustee of 6 other charities
• HARO BEDELIAN CBE
• JOHN ARTHUR TEDDER FCA
• MR JOHN RICHARD SHELLEY
• MR ROBERT IAN GUNN · trustee of 2 other charities
• RACHEL SANDRA TURNER · trustee of 1 other charity
• SALLY ANN NETHERCOTT

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

Operates in: Albania · Ethiopia · Ghana · India · Indonesia · Kenya · Madagascar · Nepal · Peru · Sierra Leone · Tanzania · Thailand

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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