SURREY CHURCHES PRESERVATION TRUST

Registered charity 1063656 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The restoration, maintenance, preservation, repair and reconstruction of Christian Churches and Churchyards (and of any fixtures and fittings in the said churches) in the County of Surrey.

Objects

(1) THE RESTORATION, MAINTENANCE, PRESERVATION, REPAIR AND RECONSTRUCTION OF CHRISTIAN CHURCHES AND CHURCHYARDS AND OF ANY FIXTURES AND FITTINGS IN THE SAID CHURCHES AND CHURCHYARDS. (2) THE RESTORATION, MAINTENANCE, PRESERVATION AND REPAIR OF CHURCHES OF HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE OR ARCHITECTURAL VALUE IN THE EVENT OF THEIR BEING MADE REDUNDANT OR OTHERWISE CEASING TO BE USED FOR PUBLIC WORSHIP.

Area of benefit: SURREY

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

Causes: Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a significant increase in net assets, rising from £57,498 in 2025 to £114,824 in 2026, driven largely by a £50,000 legacy. The trustees maintain a reserves policy of retaining £10,000, and current unrestricted reserves of £114,824 are well above this target. The accounts state there is no risk of insolvency as grants are limited to available assets.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

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 31/03/2023 (received 13/05/2024, 103 days after the 31/01/2024 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.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/01/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/01/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• HAMISH DONALDSON MBE DLchair · trustee of 5 other charities
• ANDREW JAMES PLUMRIDGE
• Father Alexander Francis Hill
• Geoffrey Gransden Martin · trustee of 2 other charities
• JOHN ANTHONY ROLL PICKERING
• MARTIN JOHN HIGGINS · trustee of 3 other charities
• Richard Charles Morris

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

Operates in: Croydon · Kingston Upon Thames · Merton · Richmond Upon Thames · Surrey · Sutton

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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Charities like this

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

• SOMERSET CHURCHES TRUST income £27k
• BERKSHIRE HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST income £30k
• THE CHURCH LANDS income £849k
• THE NATIONAL CHURCHES TRUST income £5.2m
• LEICESTER AND LEICESTERSHIRE HISTORIC CHURCHES PRESERVATION TRUST income £42k
• CAMBRIDGESHIRE HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST income £32k

Side by side with its peers

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