DORIS FIELD CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 328687 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The trustees support a diverse range of charities and projects, ranging from small individual grants to contributions to large projects, in accordance with the Trust's charitable objectives and in line with the grant making policy.

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Latest income

£555k

Latest spending

£596k

Registered

1990

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is in a healthy financial state with total funds of £11,972,373, although the underlying value of assets decreased by £389,348 due to investment losses. The trustees have decided to conserve reserves and reduce grants due to anticipated economic uncertainty and reduced rental income, but confirm they have sufficient resources to meet obligations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: sufficient to cover a significant element of core running costs moving forward (held: £42k)

“It is the policy of the Trust to hold reserves in its unrestricted income fund which have not yet been committed or designated for any particular purpose and are sufficient to cover a significant element of core running costs moving forward.” — page 6

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Wenn Townsend. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "within" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 15/08/2025)

Total income

£555k

Total spending

£596k

Cost of raising funds

£202k

Reserves (reported)

£42k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~0.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (100% 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: 36.3% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

HELEN FANYINKA
JOHN PETER OSWALD COLE · trustee of 2 other charities
N ANDREW HARPER
WILHELMINA CHURCH

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
15/08/2025	£555k	£596k
15/08/2024	£533k	£586k
15/08/2023	£482k	£519k
15/08/2022	£465k	£481k
15/08/2021	£414k	£500k

Common questions

Is DORIS FIELD CHARITABLE TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity is in a healthy financial state with total funds of £11,972,373, although the underlying value of assets decreased by £389,348 due to investment losses. The trustees have decided to conserve reserves and reduce grants due to anticipated economic uncertainty and reduced rental income, but confirm they have sufficient resources to meet obligations. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Wenn Townsend.

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
SHEMTOV CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£58k
M AND M FOUNDATION	1	£30k
SAMJO LIMITED	1	£25k
PARKLAKE CHARITY TRUST	1	£5k

Charities like this

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

THE CHARLES LITTLEWOOD HILL TRUST income £184k
THE THEODORE MAXXY CHARITABLE TRUST income £854k
ESTATE CHARITY OF ALICE,DUCHESS DUDLEY income £233k
THE DORSET HEALTH TRUST LIMITED income £187k
RICHMOND TRUST FUND income £220k
CHORTKOV TRUST income £219k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
DORIS FIELD CHARITABLE TRUST	£555k	—	within	—	no doubt
THE CHARLES LITTLEWOOD HILL TRUST FY2025	£184k	—	above	—	no doubt
THE THEODORE MAXXY CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£854k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
ESTATE CHARITY OF ALICE,DUCHESS DUDLEY FY2025	£233k	—	above	—	no doubt
THE DORSET HEALTH TRUST LIMITED FY2025	£187k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
RICHMOND TRUST FUND FY2025	£220k	—	above	—	no doubt

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