GERALD PALMER ELING TRUST COMPANY

Registered charity 1100869 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The significant activities of the Trust include: the professional management of the Trust's estate; and the long term management of the woodlands for the benefit of the estate as a whole and, as appropriate for the general public; and the distribution of grants for charitable purposes.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Religious Activities · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £466,289, which is below the stated policy target of three to six months of operating expenditure (approximately £1,200,000 per annum). The charity reported a net movement in funds of £448,809 and holds total net assets of £105,323,017, with the majority held in the endowment fund.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 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 ~3.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (91% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DESMOND ROGER WINGATE HARRISONchair
• Angela Cropley
• Christopher Richard Allen Ferguson
• JAMES WILLIAM GARDINER · trustee of 1 other charity
• KENNETH ROBERT MCDIARMID
• Robin Shedden Broadhurst CVO CBE · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ELM TREE TRUST.

• THE ELM TREE TRUST income £214k
• THE WELSH WATER ELAN TRUST income £1.4m
• THE GUY AND ELINOR MEYNELL CHARITABLE TRUST income £373k
• THE MAUD ELKINGTON CHARITABLE TRUST income £800k
• THE F GLENISTER WOODGER TRUST CIO income £1.7m
• THE WILLOW TREE TRUST income £184k

Side by side with its peers

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