PENHURST RETREAT CENTRE CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1060817 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PENHURST RETREAT CENTRE

The Trustees aim to pursue the objects of the charity through the running of the Manor House at Penhurst as a specialist Retreat Centre. The main emphasis is to provide retreat facilities for individuals and small groups returning from stressful environments overseas or within the UK, or preparing to serve overseas through both led group Retreats and the opportunity for private reflection.

Objects

1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION 2) THE ADVANCEMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF RELIGIOUS OR OTHER EDUCATION 3) THE RELIEF OF THE AGED, POOR SICK OR DISABLED.

Area of benefit: U.K. AND OVERSEAS

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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Registered contact address: Rother, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net expenditure of £33,869 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £1,331,639 to £1,297,770. Free reserves stood at £201,265, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of three months' running costs. The trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue its activities on a going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (27/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Richard William Langmeadchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• DAVID JOHN GREENSLADE
• Douglas Roger Wakeling
• John Francis MacDiarmid
• Louisa Gail Bailey
• Rev Gary Marshall Cregeen

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

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE LLANGASTY RETREAT HOUSE TRUST.

• THE LLANGASTY RETREAT HOUSE TRUST income £135k
• QUIET WATERS CHRISTIAN RETREAT HOUSE income £102k
• THE RETREAT ANIMAL RESCUE income £350k
• WICKSTEED CHARITABLE TRUST income £4.4m
• THE MAYTREE RESPITE CENTRE income £249k
• THE RETREAT ASSOCIATION income £143k

Side by side with its peers

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