THE GEOFFREY WATLING CHARITY

Registered charity 1025258 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To pay or apply the annual income of the charity's funds to such charity or charities or for such charitable purpose or purposes as the trustees shall from time to time in their absolute discretion determine.

Objects

GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES.

Area of benefit: COUNTY OF NORFOLK AND THE WAVENEY DISTRICT OF SUFFOLK

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Norwich, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £954,000, which the trustees state represents 13 months of expenditure against a policy target of six months. The group's total net assets increased by £520,129 during the year to £19,894,038, driven by investment gains and income. The accounts are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MA Partners Audit LLP. Discloses 5 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.

• 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
• 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~12.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (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: 37.1% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALAN CHARLES WATLINGchair
• Alexandra Margaret Haswell
• David Lundean
• Nicola Khandpur
• RICHARD STANLEY MARKS
• SUSAN PATRICIA WATLING

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

Operates in: Norfolk · Suffolk

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GOWLING WLG (UK) CHARITABLE TRUST.

• GOWLING WLG (UK) CHARITABLE TRUST income £164k
• THE GEOFF HILL CHARITABLE TRUST income £73k
• THE GEOFFREY HAROLD GREATREX CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION income £35k
• G F EYRE CHARITABLE TRUST income £124k
• THE WELWYN HATFIELD FOYER CHARITABLE TRUST income £63k
• THE WARSHAW FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST income £28k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.