CULLOMPTON WALRONDS PRESERVATION TRUST

Registered charity 1061913 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Building Preservation Trust has restored the Walronds, a late Tudor property, and is using it for a wide variety of community purposes.

Objects

1.TO PRESERVE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT WHATEVER OF THE HISTORICAL, ARCHITECTURAL AND CONSTRUCTIONAL HERITAGE MAY EXIST IN AND AROUND THE PARISH OF CULLOMPTON IN THE FORM OF BUILDINGS (INCLUDING ANY BUILDINGS DEFINED IN S336(1) OF THE TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990) OF PARTICULAR BEAUTY OR HISTORICAL, ARCHITECTURAL OR CONSTRUCTIONAL INTEREST 2) THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF AN OPEN SPACE OR GARDEN AND A PUBLIC MEETING ROOM FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF AND VISITORS TO THE PARISH OF CULLOMPTON.

Area of benefit: PARISH OF CULLOMPTON

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Mid Devon, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £8,516 for the year, resulting in unrestricted funds moving into a deficit of £62,335. While the charity holds significant restricted funds of £3,679,244, the trustees note that the previous year was difficult due to tenant vacancies and a slump in the rental housing market, though recent lettings have provided some financial security. The trustees confirm adequate resources exist to continue operations 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding 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.

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 31/12/2022 (received 17/04/2024, 169 days after the 31/10/2023 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03328420
• Trading subsidiary: CULLOMPTON WALRONDS LIMITED Companies House 09291127 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Cullompton Walronds Preservation Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Architectural Heritage Fund — “Without the advice, encouragement and financial support which the Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) provided at the outset in 1996 and 1997 …” (source page)
• Mid Devon District Council — “The initial breakthrough came in September 2008 with a decision at Mid Devon District Council (MDDC) to provide £100,000 for development wor…” (source page)
• Devon County Council — “This vote was crucial to decisons made in 2009 by Devon County Council (DCC) to provide £250,000 from the sale of Exeter airport” (source page)
• Heritage Lottery Fund — “and by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to give first round funds of £33,300.” (source page)
• English Heritage — “Separately, English Heritage (EH) had been following the project from the outset with inspections and technical advice. They made a developm…” (source page)
• J P Getty Jnr Charitable Trust — “The first large grant from a private source was a donation of £100,000 from the J P Getty Jnr Charitable Trust.” (source page)
• Pilgrim Trust — “Working with our partners in the Vivat Trust, further grants of £30,000 from the Pilgrim Trust and £150,000 from the Monument Trust followed…” (source page)
• Monument Trust — “Working with our partners in the Vivat Trust, further grants of £30,000 from the Pilgrim Trust and £150,000 from the Monument Trust followed…” (source page)
• Wolfson Foundation — “The Wolfson Foundation made a grant of £25,000 and a grant of £20,000 was made by the Garfield Weston Foundation.” (source page)
• Garfield Weston Foundation — “The Wolfson Foundation made a grant of £25,000 and a grant of £20,000 was made by the Garfield Weston Foundation.” (source page)
• Mercers’ Company — “In the period leading to considerations of funding for the second or construction round by EH and the HLF, grants of £5000 each were made by…” (source page)
• Leathersellers’ Company — “In the period leading to considerations of funding for the second or construction round by EH and the HLF, grants of £5000 each were made by…” (source page)
• Cullompton United Charities — “and a grant of £3650 was made by Cullompton United Charities.” (source page)
• Cullompton Town Council — “With the agreement of Cullompton Town Council, MDDC made an award of £10,000 from section 106 money for development of the extensive garden.” (source page)

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.

• SESSIONS, Graham John — director, appointed 14/07/2021on trustee list
• SUTTON, Elizabeth Margaret — director, appointed 22/02/2017on trustee list
• SESSIONS, Elizabeth Ann — director, appointed 28/01/2015on trustee list
• MORRIS, Judith Paulette — director, appointed 23/07/2014on trustee list
• CAMPBELL, Jane — secretary, appointed 14/07/2021

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). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• ELIZABETH ANN SESSIONS
• ELIZABETH MARGARET SUTTON
• Graham John Sessions
• Helen Carole Patricia McCormick
• JANE CAMPBELL BEM
• JUDITH PAULETTE MORRIS

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

Operates in: Devon

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Worcestershire Building Preservation Trust.

• Worcestershire Building Preservation Trust income £1.3m
• IAN M FOULERTON CHARITABLE TRUST income £53k
• THE BOSTON PRESERVATION TRUST LIMITED income £704k
• BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATION TRUST income £337k
• STROUD PRESERVATION TRUST LIMITED income £36k
• LONDON HISTORIC BUILDINGS TRUST LTD income £441k

Side by side with its peers

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