BUTTLE UK

Registered charity 313007 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5003068 · Wikipedia · also known as Buttle, THE BUTTLE TRUST, THE FRANK BUTTLE TRUST · also registered in Scotland as SC037997 (OSCR)

We support children who are seriously affected by financial hardship by providing grants for tailored groups to help individual families and young people overcome specific issues they face:-essential items, eg beds, cookers etc-school fees where home circumstances are seriously affecting development,We also commission research and undertake projects based on insights from our grant giving

Objects

THE MAINTENANCE, EDUCATION AND ADVANCEMENT IN LIFE OF BENEFICIARIES, THAT IS TO SAY, CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS WHO ARE ORDINARILY RESIDENT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR WOULD BE SO RESIDENT BUT FOR THE FACT THAT THEIR PARENTS OR GUARDIANS ARE OR WERE TEMPORARY RESIDENT ELSEWHERE AND WHO IN THE OPINION OF THE TRUSTEES, ARE IN NEED OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, WITH A PREFERENCE FOR (A) BENEFICIARIES WHO ARE OR WERE ADOPTED CHILDREN, (B) BENEFICIARIES WHO ARE ILLEGITIMATE, HAVE LOST ONE OR BOTH PARENTS OR ARE OR HAVE BEEN OTHERWISE DEPRIVED OF NORMAL FAMILY LIFE

Area of benefit: SEE OBJECTS

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Lambeth, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds stood at £67.55m, comprising a £59.81m endowment and £5.41m in restricted funds. The charity holds unrestricted free reserves of £1.693m, which is above its stated policy target of £1.027m (equivalent to three months of core planned operational costs). The trustees confirm that adequate resources are available to fund activities for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 3 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 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Buttle UK (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Simba Sleep — “Determined to tackle bed poverty head-on, Simba Sleep partnered with us to launch their Dreamspace initiative. Over the coming months, they …” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (61% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 33.8% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Aniela Shuckburghchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Andrew David Paul Insley
• Claire Hoyle · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Alexander
• Mary O'Callaghan
• Nigel Bolton
• Professor Harriet Ward CBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Shanti Ellis Kelemen
• Tania Cohen
• Timothy John Manly
• Tracey Dwamenah

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• THE BOWLAND CHARITABLE TRUST income £84k
• SETTLE SUPPORT income £1.3m
• Boodles Charitable Trust income £1.2m
• THE BUDDY BAG FOUNDATION income £339k
• THE BOLTONS TRUST income £34k
• WHITEGATES CHILDREN'S TRUST income £63k

Side by side with its peers

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