NORMAN GARON TRUST

Registered charity 1120656 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NORMAN GARON TRUST LIMITED

Grant making.

Objects

1 SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES THAT THE DIRECTORS SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT;2 WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE PRECEDING CLAUSE THE INCOME OF THE CHARITY'S TRUST FUND SHALL BE APPLIED PRIMARILY IN THE PROMOTION OF AND IN MAKING GRANTS IN AID OF AND TO PROMOTE SCOUTING IN ALL ITS FORMS IN THE ESSEX AREA AND IN PARTICULAR TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN A SCOUTING PRESENCE IN SUTTON MANOR THE IMMEDIATE AND SURROUNDING AREA.

Area of benefit: ESSEX

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Amateur Sport · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Chelmsford, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds £858,930 in free reserves, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of the greater of six months' income or overheads and committed grants, as budgeted costs for the next six months (£1,190,000) exceed this amount. The trustees report a reasonable expectation of adequate resources for the foreseeable future, and the independent auditors found no material uncertainties regarding the going concern basis. The charity generated a net income surplus of £377,475 for the year ended 31 December 2025.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Edmund Carr LLP. Discloses 3 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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 31/12/2022 (received 25/04/2024, 177 days after the 31/10/2023 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06291022

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.

• TOLHURST, Philip John — director, appointed 01/08/2007on trustee list
• FURLONGER, Richard Charles — director, appointed 01/08/2007on trustee list
• HUGHES, Michael Elwyn — director, appointed 01/08/2007on trustee list
• STENNETT, Paul Justin — director, appointed 01/08/2007on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% 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: 3.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• MICHEAL ELWYN HUGHES
• PAUL JUSTIN STENNETT
• PHILIP JOHN TOLHURST · trustee of 3 other charities
• RICHARD FURLONGER
• Robert Andrew Bye

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE MORGAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

• THE MORGAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £139k
• JOHNSON CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.1m
• THE GORDON FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST income £12k
• IDS TRUST income £206k
• NORMAN WALKER TRUST income £31k
• BEFORE THE THRONE CHURCH income £149k

Side by side with its peers

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