BILL BROWN'S CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT OF 1989

Registered charity 801756 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BILL BROWN 1989 CHARITABLE TRUST

The trustees operate a grant giving policy, providing funds for such charitable object or instituion as the trustees think fit.

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Latest income

£623k

Latest spending

£380k

Registered

1989

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds decreased by £603,961 to £12,288,701 due to net investment losses of £847,818, despite total income rising to £623,470. The directors consider free reserves to be adequate but not excessive, noting that the unrestricted fund sustains the charity's grant-giving objectives. The charity maintains a loan secured against its property assets, with £1,186,013 repayable at year-end.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: sufficient, but not excessive, funds to service its objective of making future charitable distributions (held: £12.3m)

“The directors' policy is to operate on the basis of being able to continue to generate sufficient income to use towards meeting their charitable objects and to accord with their principal aims. The directors are of the opinion that the funds remains sufficient to enable them to continue this ongoing objective. The charity has sufficient, but not excessive, funds to service its objective of making future charitable distributions.” — page 9

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Bright Grahame Murray. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Total income

£623k

Total spending

£380k

Cost of raising funds

£254k

Reserves (reported)

£12.3m

Employees

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: 40.7% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

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Bill Brown Charity Trustees

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
30/06/2025	£623k	£380k
30/06/2024	£533k	£586k
30/06/2023	£465k	£472k
30/06/2022	£591k	£410k
30/06/2021	£495k	£1.3m

Common questions

Is BILL BROWN'S CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT OF 1989 financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total funds decreased by £603,961 to £12,288,701 due to net investment losses of £847,818, despite total income rising to £623,470. The directors consider free reserves to be adequate but not excessive, noting that the unrestricted fund sustains the charity's grant-giving objectives. The charity maintains a loan secured against its property assets, with £1,186,013 repayable at year-end. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Bright Grahame Murray.

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
BEIS MENACHEM CHABAD LUBAVITCH	1	£183k
THE KNIGHTLAND FOUNDATION	1	£80k
SF FOUNDATION	1	£33k
YESHIVAS LUBAVITCH MANCHESTER	1	£20k
THE ALBERT GUBAY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£12k
JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION LIMITED	1	£5k
DUCHY OF LANCASTER BENEVOLENT FUND	1	£5k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MEKADSHEI SHEVEI CHARITABLE TRUST.

MEKADSHEI SHEVEI CHARITABLE TRUST income £156k
YAD VEACHISOMOCH L'CHAIM income £834k
THE INMAN CHARITY income £172k
THE CHARLES LITTLEWOOD HILL TRUST income £184k
BEIS HAMEDRASH SHAAREI TEFILLAH income £133k
BRAMPTON CHARITABLE TRUST income £101k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
BILL BROWN'S CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT OF 1989	£623k	—	above	—	no doubt
MEKADSHEI SHEVEI CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£156k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
YAD VEACHISOMOCH L'CHAIM FY2025	£834k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE INMAN CHARITY FY2025	£172k	—	above	—	no doubt
THE CHARLES LITTLEWOOD HILL TRUST FY2025	£184k	—	above	—	no doubt
BEIS HAMEDRASH SHAAREI TEFILLAH FY2025	£133k	—	above	—	no doubt

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