THE CRESCENT TRUST

Registered charity 327644 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Crescent Trust benefits other charities in general by providing cash donations.

Objects

GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES.

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Recreation · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kensington and Chelsea, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £515,152, with the trustees confirming that sufficient reserves exist despite the absence of a formal reserves policy. The charity reported a net increase in funds of £53,077, driven by donations and investment income, while maintaining adequate resources for future operations.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 05/04/2023 (received 11/04/2024, 66 days after the 05/02/2024 due date); year ending 05/04/2022 (received 29/06/2023, 144 days after the 05/02/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2021)

Reported reserves equal ~50.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (77% 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: 2.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOHN THAM
• RICHARD FINLAYSON LASCELLES

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales · Trinidad And Tobago

Income and spending

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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 CUNMONT CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE CUNMONT CHARITABLE TRUST income £2.4m
• M I CHARITABLE TRUST income £21k
• CHARITIES TRUST income £74.4m
• THE SCS TRUST income £594k
• THE RICHARD MEINS CHARITABLE TRUST income £180k
• THE OAKLEY CHARITABLE TRUST income £79k

Side by side with its peers

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