THE CORN EXCHANGE (NEWBURY) TRUST

Registered charity 1080567 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The object of the charity is the education of the public in the arts in West Berkshire and the surrounding districts.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating profit of £229,971 and holds free unrestricted reserves of £304,343. The trustees consider the Trust to be a sound commercial concern with net current assets of £1,824,032, though they identify financial sustainability as the biggest risk due to soaring utility costs and a challenging fundraising climate.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by UHY Ross Brooke. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03908975

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Corn Exchange (Newbury) Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• BOSE, Rebecca Jane — director, appointed 10/12/2025not on trustee list
• OLUWANDE, Ibironke Abiola — director, appointed 09/12/2025not on trustee list
• GHOSHEH, Issam — director, appointed 01/07/2025on trustee list
• WHATSIZE, Joshua John — director, appointed 07/02/2024on trustee list
• BUTCHER, Lucy — director, appointed 30/01/2024on trustee list
• BAHIA, Kamal — director, appointed 17/11/2021on trustee list
• HAYES, Robert John Ellis — director, appointed 13/05/2019on trustee list
• MCKINLAY, Rebecca — director, appointed 09/07/2018not on trustee list
• HOLLAND, Robert Charles — director, appointed 02/05/2012on trustee list
• IRWIN MITCHELL SECRETARIES LIMITED — corporate secretary, appointed 28/02/2008

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (51% 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: 5.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ROBERT HOLLANDchair
• Becki McKinlay
• Issam Ghosheh
• Joshua Whatsize
• Kamal Bahia
• Lucy Butcher
• REBECCA CONSTABLE
• Robert Hayes

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

Operates in: Bracknell Forest · Hampshire · Oxfordshire · Reading · Slough · West Berkshire · Wiltshire · Windsor And Maidenhead · Wokingham

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 NEWBURY SPRING FESTIVAL SOCIETY, LTD.

• NEWBURY SPRING FESTIVAL SOCIETY, LTD income £629k
• THE NEWBURY UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE income £133k
• THE DISS CORN HALL TRUST income £704k
• SHERBORNE HOUSE TRUST 2018 income £5.6m
• THE NEWBURY AND DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £900k
• GREENHAM TRUST LTD income £16.3m

Side by side with its peers

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