CHARITIES TRUST

Registered charity 327489 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q141191015

Charities Trust works with organisations, individuals and other charities to increase charitable giving with particular emphasis on tax effective donations. It does this by providing donation management services including payroll giving, online and offline sponsorship facilities and processing of donations for charity appeals.

Objects

TO ADVANCE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC WHERESOEVER IN THE WORLD AS THE COMPANY MAY THINK FIT AND IN SO FAR AS THE SAME ARE ENTIRELY ANCILLARY TO SUCH OBJECT BUT NOT FURTHER OR OTHERWISE: (I) TO ACCEPT AND UNDERTAKE THE ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT (WHETHER COMPLETELY OR ONLY IN PART) OF CHARITABLE TRUSTS WHETHER AS AGENTS FOR THE TRUSTEES OF SUCH TRUSTS OR OTHERWISE AND TO REQUIRE AND ACCEPT FEES ON ACCOUNT OF SUCH WORK OF ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT. (II) TO ACT AS AN AGENT FOR THE PURPOSES OF SECTION 713 OF THE INCOME TAX (EARNINGS & PENSIONS) ACT 2003 OR ANY RE-ENACTMENT THEREOF AND TO REQUIRE AND ACCEPT FEES FOR SO ACTING. (III) TO ACT AS A PAYROLLGIVING AGENCY IN ORDER TO RECEIVE DONATIONS FOR APPLICATION TO SUCH CHARITY OR CHARITIES AS THE DONOR MAY SPECIFY AND IF FOR ANY REASON IT BECOMES IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE CHARITY TO PAY ANY SUCH DONATION TO A CHARITY SPECIFIED BY A DONOR THE CHARITIES SHALL SO FAR AS IS PERMITTED BY LAW PAY THAT AMOUNT TO SUCH OTHER CHARITY OR CHARITIES AS IT MAY CONSIDER HAS OBJECTS SIMILAR TO THOSE OF THE CHARITY SPECIFIED BY THE DONOR.

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.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Liverpool, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £9,086,470, which the Trustees consider sufficient to meet working capital and development requirements. While total funds decreased due to the timing of donation distributions, the charity maintains a solid balance sheet with significant cash and investment holdings.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by RSM UK Audit 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Aviva — “Trusted by the UK's most giving businesses” (source page)
• The Aviva Foundation — “Trusted by the UK's most giving businesses” (source page)
• The Benefact Group — “Trusted by the UK's most giving businesses” (source page)
• The Cadent Foundation — “Trusted by the UK's most giving businesses” (source page)
• Coca-Cola Europacific Partners — “Trusted by the UK's most giving businesses” (source page)
• GiveWheel — “Trusted by the UK's most giving businesses” (source page)
• The Guardian and Observer — “Trusted by the UK's most giving businesses” (source page)
• Nationwide — “Trusted by the UK's most giving businesses” (source page)
• NatWest Group — “Trusted by the UK's most giving businesses” (source page)
• SuperKind — “Trusted by the UK's most giving businesses” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (95% 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/11/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CATHERINE ELIZABETH MARGARET RUSTOMJI
• Jillian Margaret Jones
• Lauran Angela Macare
• Patrick Fietje
• Richard David Mabbott
• Sir Michael James Bibby · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Canada · China · France · Germany · Gibraltar · Hong Kong · India · Ireland · Israel · Japan · Lithuania · Netherlands

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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.

Charities like this

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

• THE CRESCENT TRUST income £195k
• THE CHARTERHOUSE CHARITABLE TRUST income £58k
• THE M O G CHARITABLE TRUST income £54k
• HARRIS CHARITABLE TRUST income £37k
• IMPACT GIVING UK TRUST income £2.5m
• THE LESLIE MARY CARTER CHARITABLE TRUST income £222k

Side by side with its peers

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