JOHN SWIRE 1989 CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 802142 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing donations and grants for charitable purposes in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.

Objects

SUCH CHARITABLE OBJECTS AS THE SETTLOR SHALL IN WRITING DIRECT OR IN DEFAULT OF DIRECTION AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

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.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted reserves were £517,447, which is below the previous year's balance of £710,171. The trustees' report indicates that the financial position is satisfactory, with sufficient cash and investment income to meet committed donations. The charity's reserves policy is not to retain reserves, as overheads are low and deficits can be met from the expendable endowment fund.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Dixon Wilson Audit Services LLP. Discloses 3 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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 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: 3.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• MR B. SWIREchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• James Edward Hughes-Hallett
• MR J. S. SWIRE · trustee of 1 other charity
• William Leigh-Pemberton

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PAYNE GALLWEY 1989 CHARITABLE TRUST.

• PAYNE GALLWEY 1989 CHARITABLE TRUST income £195k
• THE M J SAMUEL CHARITABLE TRUST income £228k
• THE SWIRE CHARITABLE TRUST income £10.3m
• SCJM CHARITABLE TRUST income £54k
• J E POSNANSKY CHARITABLE TRUST income £133k
• G F EYRE CHARITABLE TRUST income £124k

Side by side with its peers

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