OMBERSLEY CONSERVATION TRUST

Registered charity 1025044 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Charitable purposes for the benefit of the inhabitants of the Parishes of Ombersley, Uphampton and Doverdale in the County of Worcestershire and the areas adjacent thereto.

Objects

CHARITABLE PURPOSES GENERALLY, IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE PARISHES OF OMBERSLEY, UPHAMPTON AND DOVERDALE IN THE COUNTY OF HEREFORD AND WORCESTER ("THE PARISHES") AND ADJACENT AREAS, THE CONSERVATION OF CERTAIN LANDS AND BUILDINGS IN THE PARISHES AND THE PROTECTION, PRESERVATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE RURAL AND VISUAL CHARACTER AND THE AMENITIES OF THE PARISHES (PLEASE SEE CL. 3 OF THE CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT FOR FURTHER INFORMATION).

Area of benefit: THE PARISHES OF OMBERSLEY, UPHAMPTON AND DOVERDALE (IN THE COUNTY OF HEREFORD AND WORCESTER) AND THE AREAS ADJACENT THERETO.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds general unrestricted free reserves of £1,768,520, which represents 3.7 years of expenditure at current levels. The trustees have confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Richards Sandy Audit Services Limited. 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.

• Complaints handling
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

Reported reserves equal ~71.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (58% 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: 7.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adrian Digby Neal
• Andrew Thomas Woods · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anthony Philip Gilson Hughes · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Charles Williams

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

Operates in: Worcestershire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Worcestershire Building Preservation Trust.

• Worcestershire Building Preservation Trust income £1.3m
• THE ROGER & DOUGLAS TURNER CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.9m
• WEMBDON VILLAGE HALL AND PLAYING FIELDS TRUST income £282k
• HEREFORD AND WORCESTER SCOUT COUNTY income £647k
• TALBOT VILLAGE TRUST income £4.1m
• THE ELFORD ESTATE CHARITY income £115k

Side by side with its peers

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