THE SAMUEL COURTAULD TRUST

Registered charity 802109 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Please see Report of the Trustees for details of objectives and activities of the Trust.

Objects

TO ADVANCE IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE INSTITUTE AND THE UNIVERSITY OR OTHERWISE PUBLIC EDUCATION OF AND INTEREST IN THE HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY CRITICISM OF ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY AND CONSERVATION OF WORKS OF ART.

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

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Trust reported a net deficit of £11,224 for the year ended 31 July 2025, driven by investment income lagging its target due to market downturns. Despite this deficit, total funds remained robust at £4,989,210, and the Trustees maintained a £75,000 grant to the Courtauld Institute of Art. The Trustees consider the level of free reserves sufficient to sustain operations and maintain current grant allocations in the long term.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Knox Cropper LLP. 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.

• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Hochhauser KCchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Charles Booth-Clibborn
• Charmian Caines · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Edmund Arthur Lowndes de Waal
• Ina De · trustee of 2 other charities
• Lara Barton
• Lord John Browne · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Nicholas Hamilton Hoffman · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Rosalind Polly Blakesley
• SEAN RAINBIRD
• Sally Osman · trustee of 2 other charities
• Simon Pryke

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

Operates in: City Of Westminster

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SIR JULES THORN CHARITABLE TRUST.

• SIR JULES THORN CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.9m
• THE COURTAULD INSTITUTE OF ART FUND income £434k
• THE CORNWELL CHARITABLE TRUST income £38k
• QUEDGELEY COMMUNITY TRUST income £93k
• SIR SAMUEL SCOTT OF YEWS TRUST income £153k
• SAMUEL LEEDS FOUNDATION income £81k

Side by side with its peers

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