THE HELEN ROLL CHARITY

Registered charity 299108 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Helen Roll Charity aims to distribute about £300,000 annually between about 30 charities, often continuing to make grants to them over long periods. There is only room for grants to one or two newcomers each year. It operates through registered (or exempt) charities and no donations are made directly to individuals. Applications via www.helenroll.co.uk from 01.12 - 15.02 annually.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total unrestricted and designated funds stood at £4,518,472 at the year end, with investment income of £90,562 and charitable grants paid of £304,066. The trustees confirm that budgeted income and expenditure are sufficient with the level of reserves for the charity to continue as a going concern.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~15.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• STEPHEN GEORGE WILLIAMSONchair
• CHRISTINE REID
• Catherine Staples
• Fiona Weiss
• Jessica Mannix
• PATRICK JOHN RICHARD STOPFORD BAOxon CFA · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sarah Gunn

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire · Suffolk

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE HELEN JEAN COPE CHARITY.

• THE HELEN JEAN COPE CHARITY income £176k
• THE HELEN STRAKER CHARITY income £225k
• THE HELEN AND DAVID HAINS (UK) FOUNDATION income £501k
• THE SIR JAMES ROLL CHARITABLE TRUST income £248k
• HELP FOR HEALTH income £121k
• HEDLEY FOUNDATION LIMITED income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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