OGLESBY CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1026669 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Makes charitable donations primarily in the north west of England

Objects

GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES

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: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Manchester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total unrestricted reserves decreased to £5.6m from £6.9m, a reduction of £1.3m, as expenditure exceeded income for the year. The trustees report that these reserves are sufficient to meet the organisation's five-year funding commitments and cover all eventualities. The charity received £717,904 in philanthropic donations and drew down £1.27m from reserves to finance its charitable activities.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by KM Chartered Accountants. 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 handling
• 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
• 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jane Oglesby — Chair of Trustees (source)
• Louise Magill — Trust Director (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 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~26.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (91% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jane Susan Oglesbychair
• Kathryn Ann Graham · trustee of 2 other charities
• MR CHRIS OGLESBY

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

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 THORESBY CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE THORESBY CHARITABLE TRUST income £59k
• D L M CHARITABLE TRUST income £198k
• THE ROSTON CHARITABLE TRUST income £43k
• THE OAKLEY CHARITABLE TRUST income £79k
• THE ALEXANDER MOSLEY CHARITABLE TRUST income £5.8m
• Tinsley Charitable Trust income £420k

Side by side with its peers

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