MORETONHAMPSTEAD DEVELOPMENT TRUST

Registered charity 1105114 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide facilities for recreation, advance education and relieve poverty. To preserve protect and enhance for the benefit of the public the amenities including the buildings or features of historic or natural interest. To further any charitable purposes with the objects of improving the conditions of life and social welfare for those living or working in the parish of Moretonhampstead.

Objects

THE PROMOTION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC OF RURAL REGENERATION IN AREAS OF SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION (AND IN PARTICULAR IN MORETONHAMPSTEAD PARISH) BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS;1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, TRAINING OR RETRAINING, PARTICULARLY AMONG UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE, AND PROVIDING UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE WITH WORK EXPERIENCE.2 THE CREATION OF TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES BY THE PROVISION OF WORKSPACE, BUILDINGS, AND/OR LAND FOR USE OF FAVOURABLE TERMS.3. THE MAINTENANCE, IMPROVEMENT OR PROVISION OF PUBLIC AMENITIES:4. THE PRESERVATION OF BUILDINGS OR SITES OF HISTORIC OR ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE.5. THE SUPPORT AND PROMOTION OF LOCAL SMALL BUSINESSES INCLUDING THE PROVISION FOR SALE OF ARTS AND CRAFTS.6. THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE.7. THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR GENERATING RENEWABLE ENERGY.8. THE PROVISION OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING.9. SUCH OTHER MEANS AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED SUBJECT TO THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE CHARITY COMMISSIONERS FOR ENGLAND AND WALES.

Area of benefit: MORETONHAMPSTEAD, TEIGNBRIDGE, DEVON

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £52,952 for the year ended 31 December 2025, reversing a deficit from the previous year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £80,550, and the trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05133939 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Moretonhampstead Development 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.

• SMITH, Emma Louise — director, appointed 08/08/2026on trustee list
• SMITH, Richard Ernest — director, appointed 08/08/2026on trustee list
• NOLAN, Marie-Louise Beatrice — director, appointed 14/05/2026on trustee list
• STAPLEY, Holly Megan Diana — director, appointed 01/11/2025on trustee list
• THOMSON, Charles Howard — director, appointed 05/09/2023on trustee list
• FOXWELL, Richard James — director, appointed 30/09/2010on trustee list
• WILLIS, John Howard — director, appointed 20/05/2004on trustee list
• NOTTINGHAM, Peter — secretary, appointed 12/06/2023

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charles Thomson
• Emma Louise Smith
• Holly Stapley
• Marie-Louise Beatrice Nolan
• RICHARD FOXWELL
• Richard Ernest Smith

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

Operates in: Devon

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 PADDINGTON DEVELOPMENT TRUST.

• PADDINGTON DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £3.2m
• WOODTHORPE DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £307k
• SOUTH SEFTON DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £375k
• HAWTHORNE MEADOW TRUST income £200k
• LYME REGIS DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £172k
• COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £253k

Side by side with its peers

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