THE SIR JAMES KNOTT TRUST

Registered charity 1001363 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SIR JAMES KNOTT TRUST

The primary objective of the Sir James Knott Trust is to help improve the conditions of people living and working in the North East of England

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted reserves stood at £63,435,786, supported by a total investment portfolio valued at £72,433,015. The trustees report that total income exceeded expenditure by £43,899 before investment gains, and they maintain a prudent level of cash reserves to smooth grant payments and cover administrative costs. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Ben Speke — Chair (source)
• Jo Curry — Manager (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (63% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 8.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• George Christian Festing
• JOHN CRESSWELL
• Rev FIONA JEAN SAMPLE
• Sir Walter John Buchanan Riddell

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Durham · Gateshead · Hartlepool · Newcastle Upon Tyne City · North Tyneside · Northumberland · South Tyneside · Sunderland

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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