LESLIE AND DOROTHY BLOND AWARD TRUST

Registered charity 326041 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BLOND TRUST

General Charitable Purposes.

Objects

TO ESTABLISH CONDUCT AND MAINTAIN ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS WHERE THERE IS A CANDIDATE OF SUFFICIENT MERITS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ACKNOWLEDGING THE OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION OF A PERSON BORN IN THE UNITED KINGDOM IN THE FIELD OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND THE ARTS SO AS TO ENABLE THEM TO PURSUE IT IN THEIR OWN PARTICULAR FIELD FURTHER RESEARCH OR SCHOLARSHIP AND TO EMPHASISE TO THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM GENERALLY AND IN A POSTIVE WAY THE REAL ACHEIVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE LIVING THEREIN AND BY OFFERING THE INCENTIVE OF A SCHOLARSHIP OR AWARD EACH YEAR TO PROMOTE THE ARTISTIC, MENTAL AND CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF PEOPLE LIVING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.

Area of benefit: 1NITED KINGDOM

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £109,369, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet financial commitments and charitable objectives. The total net assets decreased by £24,248 during the year, primarily due to investment losses, though the charity remains solvent with adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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 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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• MAXWELL BLOND
• MICHAEL JOHN LANE
• OLIVIA CAROL MARY BLOND
• VICTORIA MAXINE LANE

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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