Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -2
Support Score: 0
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Excess reserves: -5
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Static board: -3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: -2 ?

THE GEOFFREY AND PAULINE MARTIN TRUST 

The Geoffrey and Pauline Martin Trust's objects are to apply funds held to promote charitable purposes in any part of the world. Specifically, the Charitable Trusts focus will be supporting charities in the following areas: medical conditions including cancer, arthritis, asthma, kidney diseases and those attributable to ageing. The Charitable Trust will also focus on animals, in particular cats.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • There has been strong growth in spending since inception

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
  • There are only 3 trustees
  • The Board composition appears to be rather static

Financial issues to consider:

  • This charity has substantial assets and unrestricted reserves of £10,561,281 available, equivalent to 386 months of spending and so may not be able to utilise additional funding

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
30/06/23£716£328£388£0£10,561£10,561386.300
30/06/22£5,318£111£5,207£0£10,000£10,0001082.300
30/06/21£118£130£-12n/an/an/an/an/a0
30/06/20£130£147£-17n/an/an/an/an/a0
30/06/19£5,075£131£4,945£0£5,156£5,156474.100
Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 14.2%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 20.3%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 0%
Liabilities/Income: 2%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 386.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 19 months
Quick Ratio: 31.5
Asset Split ?
Established: 6 years

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Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Medical education & research
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 29/12/2017, number: 1176463
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

CASTLE CHAMBERS
43 CASTLE STREET
LIVERPOOL
L2 9TL
L2 9TL

Objectives

TO ADVANCE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES (ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES) AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
CharityBase
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