THE ERIC WRIGHT CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1002966 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q110909604 · also known as ERIC WRIGHT TRUST

The Trust is a general purpose charity with a particular interest in supporting young people and the elderly in the North West of England

Objects

FOR OR TOWARDS SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AND TO MAKE DONATIONS TO SUCH CHARITABLE BODY TRUST INSTITUTION OR ORGANISATION AT SUCH TIME OR TIMES AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £125,336,000, which the Trustees consider sufficient to cover a minimum of two years' committed expenditure. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £11,864,000, driven by significant gains on investments and a large operating surplus from its consolidated trading subsidiaries. The Trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Fairhurst Audit Services Ltd. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Eric Wright Charitable Trust unveils six-year charitable giving strat lancashirebusinessview.co.uk · 21/01/2026

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: WATER PARK LIMITED Companies House 03986248

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 2.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (100% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• The Eric Wright Trustee Company

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ERIC F SPARKES CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE ERIC F SPARKES CHARITABLE TRUST income £40k
• THE W L PRATT CHARITABLE TRUST income £74k
• THE ARDWICK TRUST income £101k
• THE ERIC AND MARGARET KINDER CHARITABLE TRUST income £54k
• CHURCHGATE CHARITABLE TRUST income £313k
• THE C J W TRUST income £160k

Side by side with its peers

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