GILCHRIST EDUCATIONAL TRUST

Registered charity 313877 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

THE TRUST MAKES GRANTS TO: 1) ORGANISATIONS SEEKING TO FILL ACADEMIC EDUCATIONAL GAPS.2) INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE EITHER WITHIN SIGHT OF THE END OF SELF-FINANCED DEGREE OR HIGHER EDUCATION COURSE AND WHO ARE FACING UNEXPECTED FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES OR (B) REQUIRED, AS PART OF A UNIVERSITY COURSE , TO STUDY ABROAD. 3)EXPEDITIONS PROPOSING TO CARRY OUT SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

Objects

FOR THE BENEFIT, ADVANCEMENT AND PROPAGATION OF EDUCATION AND LEARNING IN EVERY PART OF THE WORLD, AS FAR AS CIRCUMSTANCES WILL PERMIT.

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Richmond upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £2,143 for the year ended 28th February 2026, with total income of £124,708 and expenditure of £122,565. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves increased to £2,633,207, driven by net gains on investments of £464,182. The trustees maintain that the charity is prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties disclosed.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• 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.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHARLES EDWARD SAMUEL WHITBREADchair · trustee of 5 other charities
• Dr John Henry Hemming DLitt CMG · trustee of 1 other charity
• PROFESSOR F L PEARCE
• Professor Brendan John Godley
• SHANE WINSER

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

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

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• THE GRUNDY EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £32k
• TEACHERS GROUP EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £179k
• GRACE CHARITABLE TRUST income £2.7m
• THE ALL SAINTS EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £682k
• WYCLIF INDEPENDENT CHRISTIAN EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £618k
• GRACE CHURCH MANCHESTER income £184k

Side by side with its peers

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