THE STUART ROSSITER TRUST FUND

Registered charity 292076 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as STUART ROSSITER TRUST

The charity promotes research into the history of the postal services and supports publications in this area to a high academic standard.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH INTO POSTAL HISTORY AND THE PUBLICATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.

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.

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Registered contact address: Chichester, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£35k

Latest spending

£17k

Registered

1985

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity has total unrestricted reserves of £740,557, comprising a capital account of £661,065 and an income reserve of £79,492. The trustees report that assets increased to £740,557 from £674,104 in the prior year, driven by gains on investment assets. The charity operates on a voluntary basis with no paid staff and maintains a policy to ensure sufficient annual income to fund projects and expenses.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: enough annual income to fund at least two books, one research grant and the annual lecture as well as being able to pay ordinary expenses (reserves figure: £741k)

“Established a policy to have long term capital increase with consequential income increase but not at the expense of having enough annual income to fund at least two books, one research grant and the annual lecture as well as being able to pay ordinary expenses.” — page 7

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints policy and procedures
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
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Serious incident reporting 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)

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Volunteers: 1
Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Volunteers: 1
Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

Volunteers: 1
Grant-making is its main activity

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

Andrew William Weber Gould
David James Podger
David William Fred Alford
Douglas Norman Muir
REX ANTHONY DIXON
SUSAN HELEN MCEWEN
Simon Richards · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£35k	£17k
31/12/2024	£36k	£16k
31/12/2023	£32k	£29k
31/12/2022	£35k	£9k
31/12/2021	£25k	£11k

Common questions

Is THE STUART ROSSITER TRUST FUND financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity has total unrestricted reserves of £740,557, comprising a capital account of £661,065 and an income reserve of £79,492. The trustees report that assets increased to £740,557 from £674,104 in the prior year, driven by gains on investment assets. The charity operates on a voluntary basis with no paid staff and maintains a policy to ensure sufficient annual income to fund projects and expenses. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
M B FOUNDATION (ALSO KNOWN AS MOSSAD HORAV MOSHE ARYEH HALEVY)	1	£37k
THE VALENTINE CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£15k
THE ALICE ELLEN COOPER-DEAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£7k

Charities like this

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

STANFORD TRUST income £41k
THE ROSTON CHARITABLE TRUST income £43k
THE ANTIQUITY TRUST income £93k
DORSET ARCHIVES TRUST income £55k
THE ROSS WARBURTON CHARITABLE TRUST income £2.6m
PAINTER STAINERS FINE ART TRUST FUND income £5k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE STUART ROSSITER TRUST FUND	£35k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
STANFORD TRUST FY2025	£41k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE ROSTON CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£43k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE ANTIQUITY TRUST FY2025	£93k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
DORSET ARCHIVES TRUST FY2025	£55k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE ROSS WARBURTON CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£2.6m	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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