NEW ORFORD TOWN TRUST

Registered charity 1053729 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Uitilzing the income derived from the Trust's property to ensure the maintenance of the property and apply any remaining income for charitable purposes for the general benefit of the inhabitants of the Parish of Orford.

Objects

SUBJECT TO PAYMENT OF THE EXPENSES AFORESAID THE TRUSTEES SHALL APPLY THE INCOME OF THE CHARITY FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE GENERAL BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT

Area of benefit: PARISH OF ORFORD

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Latest income
£269k
Latest spending
£203k
Registered
1996
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £65,982 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £268,682 against expenditure of £202,700. The trustees report that unrestricted and undesignated reserves are sufficient to cover an average six months' expenditure, and the auditor confirmed no material uncertainties exist regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: none
“No employee received remuneration amounting to more than £60,000 in either year.” — page 23
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: prudent minimum to ensure the work of the Charity continues in an ordered manner from year to year, even if incoming resources were to fluctuate downwards (reserves figure: £3.0m)
“The unrestricted and undesignated reserves of the Trust carried forward are sufficient to cover an average six months’ expenditure. It is the policy of the Trust to hold reserves which are considered the prudent minimum to ensure the work of the Charity continues in an ordered manner from year to year, even if incoming resources were to fluctuate downwards” — page 6
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Amounts due from Orford Sailing Club
“Amounts due from Orford Sailing Club 2,130” — page 31
“Amount due from Parish Councillors 395” — page 31
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Amounts due from Parish Councillors
“Amounts due from Orford Sailing Club 2,130” — page 31
“Amount due from Parish Councillors 395” — page 31
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Amounts due from Orford Country Market
“Amounts due from Orford Sailing Club 2,130” — page 31
“Amount due from Parish Councillors 395” — page 31
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Sumer Auditco Limited. 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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

  • Volunteers: 1

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

  • Volunteers: 1

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2021 (received 22/09/2022, 234 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£269k£203k
31/03/2024£250k£196k
31/03/2023£240k£190k
31/03/2022£217k£148k
31/03/2021£453k£141k

Common questions

Is NEW ORFORD TOWN TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £65,982 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £268,682 against expenditure of £202,700. The trustees report that unrestricted and undesignated reserves are sufficient to cover an average six months' expenditure, and the auditor confirmed no material uncertainties exist regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Sumer Auditco Limited.

Who funds NEW ORFORD TOWN TRUST?

Funders whose own accounts filings name NEW ORFORD TOWN TRUST as a grant recipient include THE PENCHANT FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE PENCHANT FOUNDATIONFY2021£250k
THE PENCHANT FOUNDATIONFY2022£5k

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ASHFORD TOWN1£15k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with OLD PARISH TRUST.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
NEW ORFORD TOWN TRUST£269k—0above—no doubt
OLD PARISH TRUST FY2025£81k—0unclear—no doubt
ASHFORD PAROCHIAL CHARITIES FY2025£58k—0unclear—no doubt
NEWFIELD COMMUNITY CHURCH TRUST FY2025£71k—0above—no doubt
NORTHERN LAND TRUST FY2025£91k—0unclear—no doubt
SEAFORD ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£60k—0unclear—no doubt

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