THE CHARITIES ADVISORY TRUST
Charity number: 1040487
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
To; - promote charitable giving through Card Aid and the Good Gifts Catalogue - provide opportunities to help others through volunteering (Knit for Peace - knitting for those in need at home and abroad) - provide advice and practical help to charities to enable them to be more effective. - create and fund income generating activities which provide employment and are sustainable.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 30 June 2024
Total income: £364,997
Total expenditure: £567,536
People
3 Trustee(s)
40000 Volunteer(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
| Number of employees | |
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| £70k to £80k | 1 |
| £90k to £100k | 1 |
Fundraising
No information available
Trading
This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.
Trustee payments
No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.
What, who, how, where
Main way of carrying out purposes is grant making
What the charity does:
- General Charitable Purposes
- Education/training
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Overseas Aid/famine Relief
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Amateur Sport
- Animals
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Recreation
Who the charity helps:
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Provides Services
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
Where the charity operates:
- Throughout England And Wales
- Angola
- Dominica
- Ghana
- India
- Israel
- Kenya
- Malawi
- Northern Ireland
- Rwanda
- Scotland
- Sierra Leone
- South Africa
- Tanzania
- The Gambia
- Zimbabwe
Governance
Registration history:
- 26 August 1994: Standard registration
Organisation type:
Charitable company
Other names:
No other names
Company number:
Gift aid:
Recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
- 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
- Investment
- Paying staff
- Risk management
- Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
- Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
- Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
- Volunteer management
Land and property:
This charity owns and/or leases land or property
Trustees
Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service
3 Trustee(s)
| Name | Role | Date of appointment | Other trusteeships | Reporting status of other trusteeships | ||||||
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| Rowena Dunn | Trustee | 25 April 2018 |
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| DAVID RUSSELL | Trustee | 17 July 2014 |
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| Leila MacTavish Mohamed | Trustee | 17 July 2014 |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 30/06/2020 | 30/06/2021 | 30/06/2022 | 30/06/2023 | 30/06/2024 | ||
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Total gross income | £901.22k | £608.84k | £714.49k | £546.51k | £365.00k | |
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Total expenditure | £943.02k | £725.07k | £763.83k | £747.47k | £567.54k | |
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Income from government contracts | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income from government grants | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income - Donations and legacies | £753.09k | £539.49k | £637.10k | £454.11k | N/A | |
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Income - Other trading activities | £104.80k | £44.43k | £0 | £77.89k | N/A | |
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Income - Charitable activities | £27.77k | £12.76k | £66.65k | £0 | N/A | |
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Income - Endowments | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | N/A | |
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Income - Investment | £15.55k | £12.16k | £10.74k | £14.51k | N/A | |
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Income - Other | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | N/A | |
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Income - Legacies | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Charitable activities | £779.39k | £542.65k | £706.95k | £732.90k | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Raising funds | £163.63k | £182.42k | £56.88k | £14.57k | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Governance | £6.25k | £7.65k | £6.55k | £7.20k | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Grants institution | £384.29k | £292.84k | £354.98k | £338.23k | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Investment management | £0 | £0 | £0 | £10.38k | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Other | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | N/A |
Accounts and annual returns
This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
| Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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| Annual return | 30 June 2024 | 21 April 2025 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 30 June 2024 | 21 April 2025 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 30 June 2023 | 03 April 2024 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 30 June 2023 | 03 April 2024 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 30 June 2022 | 10 May 2023 | 10 days late | |
| Accounts and TAR | 30 June 2022 | 10 May 2023 | 10 days late | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 30 June 2021 | 30 April 2022 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 30 June 2021 | 01 May 2022 | 1 days late | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 30 June 2020 | 24 April 2021 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 30 June 2020 | 24 April 2021 | On Time | Download Open in new window |