CANON SLADE TRUST

Registered charity 526764 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CANON SLADE SCHOOL, CANON SLADE SCHOOL CHARITY · filing overdue (register status)

To provide for the school such special benefits of any kind as may from time to time be agreed between the Managing Trustees and the Governors of the school and being benefits of a kind not normally provided from annual maintenance grant.

Objects

ASSISTING THE GOVERNORS FOR THE TIME BEING OF THE SCHOOL TO DISCHARGE THEIR OBLIGATIONS UNDER THE EDUCATION ACTS 1944 TO 1988 WITH RESPECT TO THE MAINTENANCE OF THE SCHOOL.

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: Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Latest income

£102k

Latest spending

£109k

Registered

1963

Accounts read

FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total funds decreased from £450,602 to £444,289 due to a net expenditure exceeding income. The trustees maintain that reserves are at a reasonable level, though they adopt a cautious policy regarding future funding requests. The going concern basis is supported by the trustees' reasonable expectation of adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Governance: The document states the charity was unable to access certain bank account statements as the bank were unwilling to provide the information, which the examiner reported as a matter of concern.

“During the year we were made aware that the charity were unable to access certain bank account statements as the bank were unwilling to provide the information.” — page 13

Per its FY2024 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
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
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2024 (received 17/11/2025, 17 days after the 31/10/2025 due date); year ending 31/12/2022 (received 02/11/2023, 2 days after the 31/10/2023 due date).

1 further annual return is past its due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

CLARE LOMAXchair
Canon John Walsh · trustee of 5 other charities
DAVID CARTWRIGHT
GEOFFREY WHALLEY · trustee of 1 other charity
Ian Tomkin · trustee of 2 other charities
JOHN BURNS
Judith Mary Berry
PAUL DYSON
Stephen Paul Barber · trustee of 1 other charity
Ying Hua Simon Li · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bolton

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	—	—
31/12/2024	£102k	£109k
31/12/2023	£86k	£39k
31/12/2022	£102k	£105k
31/12/2021	£75k	£98k

Common questions

Is CANON SLADE TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that total funds decreased from £450,602 to £444,289 due to a net expenditure exceeding income. The trustees maintain that reserves are at a reasonable level, though they adopt a cautious policy regarding future funding requests. The going concern basis is supported by the trustees' reasonable expectation of adequate resources for the foreseeable future. Its FY2024 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
Sport England	19/10/2018	£110k	Resurface Multi Sports AGP

Charities like this

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

THE RICHMOND SCHOOL TRUST income £26k
COWBRIDGE SCHOOL TRUST income £165k
FITTON TRUST income £100k
CARLTON EDUCATIONAL CHARITY income £148k
ST MARTIN'S SCHOOL (NAWTON) TRUST LIMITED income £28k
CANONSTATES LIMITED income £74k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
CANON SLADE TRUST	£102k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE RICHMOND SCHOOL TRUST FY2025	£26k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
COWBRIDGE SCHOOL TRUST FY2025	£165k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
FITTON TRUST FY2025	£100k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
CARLTON EDUCATIONAL CHARITY FY2025	£148k	—	above	—	no doubt
ST MARTIN'S SCHOOL (NAWTON) TRUST LIMITED FY2025	£28k	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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