Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: -1

Support Score: 3

No PartB

No conflicts policy: -1

Grant maker support: +3

Overall GiG Score: 2

THE BOWER TRUST

Activities involve making grants in the main for general charitable purposes to African based needs and to charities with activities in Wales.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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
05/04/23		£72	£33	£39	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
05/04/22		£44	£42	£1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
05/04/21		£45	£50	£-5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
05/04/20		£63	£46	£17	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
05/04/19	*	£469	£36	£433	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
05/04/18	*	£46	£29	£17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
05/04/17		£35	£52	£-17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
05/04/16		£37	£30	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
05/04/15		£37	£29	£8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
05/04/14		£43	£39	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
05/04/13		£36	£39	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
05/04/12		£33	£44	£-11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
05/04/11		£32	£35	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
05/04/10		£31	£61	£-30	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
05/04/09		£39	£64	£-25	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
05/04/08		£45	£35	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
05/04/07		£39	£33	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
05/04/06	*	£39	£43	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
05/04/05		£36	£29	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
05/04/04		£32	£24	£8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 43 years

01446741706

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

General Charitable Purposes

GiG Classification

Grant-making foundations

How it operates

Makes Grants to Organisations

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
Other Defined Groups

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Emergency Resource Support
£18,640	09/03/2022	This fund aims to provide emergency funding awards to culturally significant organisations that were financially sustainable before Covid-19 but are now at imminent risk of failure and have exhausted ....more This fund aims to provide emergency funding awards to culturally significant organisations that were financially sustainable before Covid-19 but are now at imminent risk of failure and have exhausted all other options for increasing their resilience.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Gender Split

GRAHAM BENFIELD Appointed: 1981, Other trusteeships: ST DONAT'S ARTS CENTRE LIMITED, THE PLAYTHINGS PAST MUSEUM TRUST, THE BETTY CADBURY TRUST, ROTARY CLUB OF LLANTWIT MAJOR TRUST FUND, VALE FOR AFRICA, BUILDING COMMUNITIES TRUSTEE LIMITED, GLAMORGAN VOLUNTARY SERVICES, CROESO LLANTWIT, LLANTWIT MAJOR CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL,

JACK CHRISTOPHER BENFIELD, Other trusteeship: THE PLAYTHINGS PAST MUSEUM TRUST,

MRS TINA BENFIELD (Chair), Other trusteeships: SARNIA CHARITABLE TRUST, THE PLAYTHINGS PAST MUSEUM TRUST, THE BETTY CADBURY TRUST,

ROBERT DAVID BENFIELD, Other trusteeship: THE PLAYTHINGS PAST MUSEUM TRUST,

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 25/08/1981, number: 283025

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Investment

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR19: 8 days late, AR18: 1 days late, AR06: 16 days late,

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from CHRISTOPHER CADBURY CHARITABLE TRUST on 16/07/2019

Main office

OLD ROSEDEW HOUSE
COLHUGH STREET
LLANTWIT MAJOR
CF61 1RF

Objectives

SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTION OR INSTITUTIONS OR SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL THINK FIT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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