THE CUMBER FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 291009 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity's beneficial area is in practice worldwide with an emphasis on UK national needs, underdeveloped countries and local needs in Oxfordshire and Berkshire. Areas most supported are health, disability, housing, youth and childrens welfare & education and agricultural development as well as Christian work in all these fields and local environmental projects.

Objects

THE GENERAL PURPOSE OF SUCH CHARITABLE BODIES OR FOR SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE.

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 · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Accommodation/housing · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £1,210,910, a decrease from the previous year's £1,344,313. The trustees report that budgeted income and expenditure are sufficient with the level of reserves for the charity to continue as a going concern. The charity holds minimal reserves in a business instant access account to respond to urgent requests.

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
• Investment
• Risk management
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mary Elizabeth Tearneychair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ellen May Cumber
• JULIA ELIZABETH MEARNS
• KELLIE ANN DAVEY

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

Operates in: Brazil · Buckinghamshire · Cambodia · Ethiopia · Hackney · India · Kenya · Malawi · Nepal · Occupied Palestinian Territories · Oxfordshire · Reading

Income and spending

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