OPTIGENE FOUNDATION
Charity number: 1200710
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
General Charitable Purposes. Trust is open to applications. Please submit your application to https://funding.ludlowtrust.com
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 28 September 2024
Total income: £23,325
Total expenditure: £140,155
People
3 Trustee(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No information availableFundraising
No information available
Trading
This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.
Trustee payments
One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity.
What, who, how, where
Main way of carrying out purposes is grant making
What the charity does:
- General Charitable Purposes
Who the charity helps:
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
How the charity helps:
- Makes Grants To Organisations
Where the charity operates:
- Throughout England And Wales
Governance
Registration history:
- 18 October 2022: Standard registration
Organisation type:
Trust
Other names:
No other names
Gift aid:
Recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
- 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
- Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
- Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
- Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Land and property:
This charity does not own and/or lease 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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| Duncan Roy Clark | Trustee | 29 September 2022 |
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| Michael Paul Andreou | Trustee | 29 September 2022 |
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| Ludlow Trust Company Ltd | Trustee | 28 September 2022 |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 28/09/2023 | 28/09/2024 | ||
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Total gross income | £10.07k | £23.33k | |
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Total expenditure | £90.57k | £140.16k | |
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Income from government contracts | N/A | N/A | |
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Income from government grants | N/A | 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 | 28 September 2024 | 24 January 2025 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 28 September 2024 | Not Required | ||
| Annual return | 28 September 2023 | 01 February 2024 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 28 September 2023 | Not Required |