STRATFORD-UPON-AVON TOWN TRUST

Registered charity 1088521 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Town Trust distributes grant aid to other charities, groups and in some cases individuals to support projects and activities consistent with the Town Trust's objects. It also provides and maintains some community facilities and areas of public recreation. It works with other prominent charities to promote the interests of the charity sector and enhance the quality of life of local residents.

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £4.0m, driven by investment performance, while support costs rose to £625k due to staff increases and inflation. The charity holds £4.9m in unrestricted funds, of which £3.2m is available for future charitable activities, exceeding its policy target of six months' administration costs.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £80,001 - £90,000 (FY2023) to £90,001 - £100,000 (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04222949

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Stratford Town Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Matthew Poole — Chief Executive (source)

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.

• FARQUHARSON, Robert — director, appointed 01/06/2026on trustee list
• ORSMAN, Kathleen Anne — director, appointed 01/06/2026on trustee list
• SIDDESHAPPA, Sharath, Dr — director, appointed 01/06/2026on trustee list
• TUBB, Stephen Martin Charles — director, appointed 01/01/2026on trustee list
• MARKS, Reema Christine — director, appointed 03/09/2025on trustee list
• MCNAUGHT, Lewis John — director, appointed 01/06/2024on trustee list
• SUMMERS, Sarah — director, appointed 01/06/2024on trustee list
• TAILBY, Mark — director, appointed 01/02/2023on trustee list
• ROLFE, Michael — director, appointed 26/05/2022on trustee list
• SMITH, Jonathan Paul — director, appointed 01/04/2022on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

46 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (41 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~9.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (95% 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: 30.3% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr SHARATH SIDDESHAPPA
• Jonathan Paul Smith
• Kathleen Anne Orsman · trustee of 1 other charity
• LEWIS JOHN MCNAUGHT
• Marion Homer
• Mark Tailby
• Michael Rolfe
• Reema Christine Marks
• Robert Farquharson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sarah Summers
• Stephen Martin charles Tubb · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Warwickshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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.

Charities like this

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

• SHEFFIELD TOWN TRUST income £420k
• CHELTENHAM TOWN COMMUNITY TRUST income £442k
• THE PAUL STRANK CHARITABLE TRUST income £225k
• THE HAWTHORNE CHARITABLE TRUST income £242k
• NEW ORFORD TOWN TRUST income £269k
• THE EAST LOOE TOWN TRUST income £569k

Side by side with its peers

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