Registered charity number: 1009980
## THE OLD WELLINGTONIAN CHARITABLE TRUST FUND
## ACCOUNTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31[ST] July 2025
## **THE OLD WELLINGTONIAN SOCIETY CHARITABLE TRUST ANNUAL REPORT 2024-25**
## **AIMS & OBJECTS**
The trustees of the Old Wellingtonian Society Charitable Trust present their annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 July 2025. The accounts comply with current statutory requirements, the Trust Deed and the Statement of Recommended Practice - Accounting and Reporting by Charities: SORP applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with FRS 102.
## **Our Aims**
The Trust operates under a Trust Deed dated 24[th] February 1992, amended by a Supplemental Trust Deed dated 23 January 2014, which includes regulations for the appointment of trustees.
Our aims are to provide charitable assistance in support of both Wellington College’s educational objects and the Old Wellingtonian Society’s object of providing a ‘whole-life community’ for the alumni of Wellington College.
The trustees also administer the Herbert Old Wellingtonian Trust and J L Bevir Memorial Fund, which have been combined into the Old Wellingtonian Society Charitable Trust. The identities of these trusts have been retained for the award of grants, scholarships and bursaries but the assets have been pooled.
## **Our Objects**
Wellington College aims to provide a world class education to boys and girls aged 13 to 18. The Old Wellingtonian Charitable Trust is the charitable component of the Old Wellingtonian Society which is the school’s alumni organisation. The Trust exists to provide support for current and past pupils of the School.
The objects of the Trust are such charitable purposes, including the award of school academic, sports and other prizes, and educational grants, awards or bursaries, as the Old
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Wellingtonian Executive Board shall from time to time direct and, in the absence of such direction, trustees shall at their discretion decide.
The trustees have given careful consideration to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit and in particular to its supplementary public benefit guidance on advancing education and on fee-charging.
Our key objectives of the year, following reviews in the previous year, included:
- To continue to implement the current disbursement policy to support awards for educational grants, scholarships and bursaries for the benefit of current and future pupils in the school.
- To continue to support awards to alumni for educational purposes or to relieve hardship.
## **MANAGEMENT**
## **Ethos**
The Trust is a charitable trust that seeks to benefit the public through the pursuit of its stated aims and objects.
The Trust’s ethos, strategy and policies dovetail seamlessly into those of both the Society and the School. These are based on the promotion of excellence among past, current and future pupils of the School.
The Trust is bound by an ethos of respect for diversity and equal opportunities.
## **Future Plans**
Since the Old Wellingtonian Society, which hitherto has been an independent and unincorporated Society operating under the governance of its management board, has merged formally into Wellington College the Old Wellingtonian Charitable Trust has monitored outcomes of this change and is ready to review its charitable activities to ensure that these remain coherent, relevant and affordable.
The Old Wellingtonian Charitable Trust will remain separate and remain an independent charity operating under the governance of its Trust Deed and trustees.
## **Our Finances**
The financial statements show gross income of £65,845, compared with the previous year’s income of £58,911.
Net income for the year is £34,125 compared with the previous year’s net income of £22,185. Grants made amounted to £22,736 (previous year - £26,711).
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
The trustees are responsible for the management and control of the Trust.
Requests for awards are submitted to the Secretary of the Old Wellingtonian Society, who also, _ex officio_ , acts as Secretary to the Old Wellingtonian Society Charitable Trust. Requests are forwarded to the trustees for consideration and decision.
Awards for scholarships and bursaries are made on a basis consistent with the School’s policy for such awards. Scholarship awards are usually capped at 10% of school fees while larger bursaries may be awarded on the basis of means testing conducted by the school.
All trustees give their time voluntarily and no remuneration or expenses were paid in the year. No trustee or person connected with a trustee received any benefit from awards made to pupils.
## **Other Relationships**
The trustees include the Master of Wellington College. The other trustees are themselves Old Wellingtonians with one a current parent of children at the College. These relationships enable the Trust to monitor the strategies, policies and future plans of the organisations it supports and so ensures continued relevance.
## **Risk Management**
The trustees are responsible for overseeing the risks faced by the Trust.
The key risk lies in a reduction of income leading to an inability to meet the costs of grants, scholarships and bursaries that have been made. This risk is currently assessed as being of potentially high impact but low likelihood, but is reflected as the major factor of the Trust’s reserves policy.
The reserves policy depends on forecasting liabilities as each new award is made and ensuring that aggregated liabilities remain within forecast income over the timescale of awards.
## **TRUSTEES**
## **Trustee Recruitment and Training**
No trustees retired or were appointed during the year.
## **Trustees**
Mrs Alison Scott – Chair from December 2025
Mr Callum Stewart –Chair until December 2025, resigned February 2026 Mr James Dahl
Mrs Fiona Haywood
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## **Charity Contact Details**
Contact:
The Secretary of the Old Wellingtonian Society (Secretary of the Old Wellingtonian Charitable Trust):
Address:
The Old Wellingtonian Society c/o The Wellington Community Office Wellington College Crowthorne Berkshire RG45 7PU
Charity Number:1009980
Alison Scott - Chair
Date: 26/05/2026
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## **INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES ON THE UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF THE OLD WELLINGTONIAN CHARITABLE TRUST**
I report on the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 July 2025
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees of the Trust you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner’s statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 130 of the Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or
3. the accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
P Richardson 26/05/26
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## **THE OLD WELLINGTONIAN SOCIETY CHARITABLE TRUST INCORPORATING THE BEVIR MEMORIAL FUND AND THE HERBERT OLD WELLINGTONIAN TRUST CHARITY STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE 12 MONTHS ENDED 31st JULY 2025**
|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**2025**
**£**
Income
Donations
Note 1
29,687
Investment income
36,158
Other
-
Total Income
65,845
Expenditure
Direct Charitable Expenditure
- Grants
Note 2
11,728
- Speech day prizes and meda
8,610
Management & Administration
- Bank charges
4
- Fundraising costs
89
- Investment managers' charg
11,289
Total Expenditure
31,720
Net Income/(Expenditure) for the year
34,125
OTHER RECOGNISED GAINS AND LOSSES
Investment gains/(losses)
35,830
NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS
69,955
Total Funds brought forward
958,107
TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD
1,028,062|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**2024**
**£**
22,000
36,911
-|
|---|---|
||58,911
22,736
4,689
60
-
9,241|
||36,726|
||22,185|
||75,291|
||97,476
860,631|
||958,107
|
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## **THE OLD WELLINGTONIAN SOCIETY CHARITABLE TRUST INCORPORATING THE BEVIR MEMORIAL FUND AND THE HERBERT OLD WELLINGTONIAN TRUST CHARITY BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31st JULY 2025**
|INVESTMENTS
CURRENT ASSETS
Cash at bank
CURRENT LIABILITIES
Creditors
Net Assets
Unrestricted Funds
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Alison Scott|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**2025**
**£**
896,939
131,122
131,122
-
-
1,028,061
1,028,061
Chair|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**2024**
**£**
871,443
89,926|
|---|---|---|
|||89,926
3,262
-|
|||3,262
-|
|||958,107|
|||958,107|
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Date:- 26/05/2026
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## **THE OLD WELLINGTONIAN SOCIETY CHARITABLE TRUST INCORPORATING THE BEVIR MEMORIAL FUND AND THE HERBERT NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS FOR THE 12 MONTHS ENDED 31st JULY 2025**
## 1 **Donations received**
|OW CT
Wellington College
2**Donations etc made**
OW CT
JL Bevir Memorial Fund
Herbert OW Trust|**2025**
**2024**
**£**
**£**
29,687
7,000
-
15,000
29,687
22,000
**2025**
**2024**
**£**
**£**
-
3,000
11,728
9,950
-
9,786
11,728
22,736|
|---|---|
## 3 **Incorporated charities**
In 2013 the JL Bevir Memorial Fund and the Herbert Old Wellingtonian Charitable Trust were united into the Old Wellingtonian Charitable Trust, with the approval of the Charities Commission. The identities have been retained for the award of grants, scholarships and bursaries but the assets have been pooled.
Through the course of discussions about the purpose of the Trust and allocations of fund to the various objects of the Trust, the trustees have realised that the accounts have not included the split of the fund that would reflect the share of the various trusts that were brought together to form the current Trust. For financial efficiency, the various trusts have been combined into one fund. The trustees have rectified this oversight; the split is now up to date and will be tracked going forward.
|The split of funds is as follows:
OW CT
JL Bevir Memorial Fund
Herbert OW Trust|**2025**
**2024**
**£**
**£**
281,066
244,586
147,495
149,738
599,500
563,783
1,028,061
958,107|
|---|---|
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