THE RALPH AND IRMA SPERRING CHARITY

Registered charity 1048101 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Trustees meet four times a year to consider applications for financial assistance from individuals and organisations within a 5 mile radius of the church of St John the Baptist, Midsomer Norton.They make grants as they deem appropriate.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £130,418 are considered adequate by the Trustees to satisfy their stated policy of covering one year's administration costs and providing a project pool. The charity holds total net assets of £8,713,040, primarily in restricted investment property, and reports a net income increase of £1,134,286 for the year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Richardson Swift Audit Ltd. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03028105

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• ABLETT, Laura Anne — director, appointed 19/11/2025on trustee list
• NEEDHAM, Patricia Ruth — director, appointed 19/06/2023on trustee list
• MITCHELL, Heather Anne — director, appointed 19/06/2023on trustee list
• ALLEN, Clive Edward James — director, appointed 19/06/2023on trustee list
• HARVEY, David Charles — director, appointed 03/01/2023on trustee list
• BUSHILL, Catherine — director, appointed 03/01/2023on trustee list
• WELLER, William Arthur — director, appointed 30/07/2020on trustee list
• PERSSON, George Harald Hilding — director, appointed 12/05/2016on trustee list
• HAXELL, John Patrick Nelson, Dr — director, appointed 13/02/2009on trustee list
• PERSSON, George Harald Hilding — secretary, appointed 12/05/2016

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £200k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CLIVE EDWARD JAMES ALLEN
• Catherine Bushill
• David Charles Harvey
• Dr JOHN PATRICK NELSON HAXELL
• GEORGE HARALD HILDING PERSSON
• Heather Ann Mitchell
• Laura Anne Ablett
• Patricia Ruth Needham
• William Arthur Weller

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Somerset

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF HOLY TRINITY STAPLETON BRISTOL.

• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF HOLY TRINITY STAPLETON BRISTOL income £168k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ALL SAINTS', SIDMOUTH. income £435k
• SOUTH NORMANTON COMMUNITY CHURCH income £166k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, SPALDING, LINCOLNSHIRE income £162k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MARY'S KINGS WORTHY income £191k
• RUGBY BAPTIST CHURCH income £240k

Side by side with its peers

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