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GREENHAM TRUST LTD

Registered charity 1062762 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GREENHAM COMMON COMMUNITY TRUST LIMITED, GREENHAM COMMON TRUST

Community Development, External Grants, Nature Conservation, Arts , Partnership Working, Sport and Recreation,Resource Centre for Disadvantaged Groups, Horticultural Therapy Centre , and Support for Local Rural Communities. Investment in property to enable partnership working and better services.We operate in Newbury and the surrounding area (West Berkshire and North Hants).

Objects

ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF NEWBURY AND SURROUNDING AREA

Area of benefit: NEWBURY

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 · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Latest income
£16.3m
Latest spending
£15.8m
Registered
1997
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Trust holds free reserves of £18.9 million, which the Trustees consider adequate to meet 12 to 24 months of future charitable commitments. Per the Strategic Report, the Trust maintains a sound financial footing with net assets of £113 million and a healthy cash position, supported by a £25 million revolving credit facility agreed in December 2024.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: 12 to 24 months of future charitable commitments (reserves figure: £18.9m)
“The Trust’s policy is to hold free reserves to meet fluctuations in the timing of grants and the Trustees consider a level of provisioning of 12 to 24 months of future charitable commitments to be adequate.” — page 8
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Donations from Trustees, Senior Management and close family members
“Trustees, Senior Management and close family members of both have made donations to the Trust during the year which total £2,400. There are no amounts outstanding at the year end.” — page 33
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: Greenham Business Park Limited
“The Trust’s trading subsidiary, Greenham Business Park limited, also performed satisfactorily in the year making a loss of £1,497,269.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Crowe UK LLP. 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.

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

  • Government income: £100,000 — grants £100,000 (2); under 1% of the £16,272,008 total gross income on the same return
  • Employees paid over £60,000: 7 (£60,001–£70,000: 3; £70,001–£80,000: 1; £140,001–£150,000: 1; £150,001–£200,000: 1; £250,001–£300,000: 1)
  • Has a trading subsidiary
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

  • Volunteers: 1
  • Government income: £430,000 — grants £430,000 (5); 3% of the £16,508,257 total gross income on the same return
  • Employees paid over £60,000: 7 (£60,001–£70,000: 4; £140,001–£150,000: 1; £150,001–£200,000: 1; £250,001–£300,000: 1)
  • Has a trading subsidiary
  • Grant-making is its main activity

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

  • Government income: £81,055 — grants £81,055 (3); under 1% of the £12,221,132 total gross income on the same return
  • Employees paid over £60,000: 3 (£130,001–£140,000: 1; £140,001–£150,000: 1; £200,001–£250,000: 1)
  • Has a trading subsidiary
  • Grant-making is its main activity

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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 02/02/2023, 2 days after the 31/01/2023 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 08/02/2022, 8 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.

Corporate structure

GREENHAM BUSINESS PARK LIMITED — per its own Companies House accounts
  • Amounts owed to group undertakings are disclosed in Debtors (£347,677) and Creditors (£625,305).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

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.

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

31 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (30 freehold); recorded price paid £10.3m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (2,604 followers) · instagram (1,846 followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Total income
£16.3m
Total spending
£15.8m
Cost of raising funds
£10.3m
Reserves (reported)
£18.9m
Employees
19

Reported reserves equal ~14.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (59% 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: 63.5% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Hampshire · West Berkshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£16.3m£15.8m
31/03/2024£16.5m£14.9m
31/03/2023£12.2m£12.1m
31/03/2022£10.5m£9.7m
31/03/2021£10.1m£10.9m

Common questions

Is GREENHAM TRUST LTD financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the Trust holds free reserves of £18.9 million, which the Trustees consider adequate to meet 12 to 24 months of future charitable commitments. Per the Strategic Report, the Trust maintains a sound financial footing with net assets of £113 million and a healthy cash position, supported by a £25 million revolving credit facility agreed in December 2024. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Crowe UK LLP.

Who funds GREENHAM TRUST LTD?

Funders whose own accounts filings name GREENHAM TRUST LTD as a grant recipient include THE HEADLEY TRUST, COLEFAX CHARITABLE TRUST, MISS W E LAWRENCE 1973 CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT, TOWN AND MANOR OF HUNGERFORD CHARITY.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE HEADLEY TRUSTFY2024£50kTowards the Watermill Theatre Funding Alliance.
COLEFAX CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£2k
MISS W E LAWRENCE 1973 CHARITABLE SETTLEMENTFY2022£2k
MISS W E LAWRENCE 1973 CHARITABLE SETTLEMENTFY2023£1k
TOWN AND MANOR OF HUNGERFORD CHARITYFY2024£500
TOWN AND MANOR OF HUNGERFORD CHARITYFY2023£250

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 Ashley Family Foundation1£46k
COLWINSTON CHARITABLE TRUST1£12k
THE OAKDALE TRUST1£3k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GREEN HILLS CHRISTIAN TRUST LIMITED.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
GREENHAM TRUST LTD£16.3m——unclear—no doubt
GREEN HILLS CHRISTIAN TRUST LIMITED FY2025£59k—0unclear—no doubt
THE SHARPHAM TRUST FY2025£2.2m——above—no doubt
GREEN MAN TRUST LTD FY2025£655k—0unclear—no doubt
THE GREENHOUSE TRUST U.K. FY2025£590k—0unclear—no doubt
WICKHAM COMMUNITY LAND TRUST FY2025£211k—0above—no doubt

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