THE FOLLETT TRUST

Registered charity 328638 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Donations are made to students in higher education, including scholarships; to organisations involved in community work; to the arts; to the promotion of reading including dyslexia sufferers.

Objects

ANY OBJECT OR PURPOSE OR OBJECTS OR PURPOSES WHOLLY AND EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

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 · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Stevenage, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£65k

Latest spending

£95k

Registered

1990

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased from £108,712 to £79,114 due to charitable donations exceeding incoming resources. The trustees report no material uncertainty regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, citing adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: none

“The Trust does not engage in raising funds. The Trust funds are regularly replenished by Gift-Aid payments made solely by the Trustees.” — page 4

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: utilised over a period of several years to enable the Trust to maintain a higher level of activity than would otherwise be possible (reserves figure: £79k)

“The Trustees have agreed that any significant donations received should be credited to an unrestricted reserve fund and utilised over a period of several years to enable the Trust to maintain a higher level of activity than would otherwise be possible.” — page 5

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Trustee K Follett settled the independent examiner's fee for the year. This amounted to £900 (2024: £900).

“The Trustee K Follett settled the independent examiner's fee for the year. This amounted to £900 (2024: £900). Page 11” — page 13

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
Complaints policy and procedures
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

BARBARA FOLLETT
KEN FOLLETT
Rebecca Hart

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
30/06/2025	£65k	£95k
30/06/2024	£183k	£134k
30/06/2023	£258k	£239k
30/06/2022	£83k	£118k
30/06/2021	£60k	£97k

Common questions

Is THE FOLLETT TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased from £108,712 to £79,114 due to charitable donations exceeding incoming resources. The trustees report no material uncertainty regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, citing adequate resources for the foreseeable future. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds THE FOLLETT TRUST?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE FOLLETT TRUST as a grant recipient include CANON COLLINS TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
CANON COLLINS TRUST	FY2025	£3k	Scholarship
CANON COLLINS TRUST	FY2021	amount not stated	Scholarships – Southern Africa (Note 7: 2021 expenditure is £0, 2020 was £4,761. No grant paid in 2021 listed in Note 7).

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
BELRON RONNIE LUBNER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£373k
CORNWALL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	1	£258k
HAEMOCHROMATOSIS UK	1	£250

Charities like this

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

THE BARTLETT TAYLOR CHARITABLE TRUST income £96k
SEDEL - COLLINGS FOUNDATION income £162k
THE MOSSELSON CHARITABLE TRUST income £46k
THE ALTENBURG FOUNDATION income £253k
ROWLEY TRUST income £43k
THE KOLEL LIMITED income £136k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE FOLLETT TRUST	£65k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE BARTLETT TAYLOR CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£96k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
SEDEL - COLLINGS FOUNDATION FY2026	£162k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE MOSSELSON CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£46k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE ALTENBURG FOUNDATION FY2025	£253k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
ROWLEY TRUST FY2026	£43k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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