Reece Family Trust

Registered charity 1139307 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LGA FOUNDATION, SPRINGFIELD HOUSE (REECE) TRUST

The object of the charity is to make grants for the benefit of the public for such charitable purposes as the trustees think fit. The trustees are particularly keen to support projects in the North East of England, reaching those most disadvantaged in the region. The charity has adopted a grant making policy and is actively seeking out charitable organisations which it might support.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds substantial unrestricted reserves of £9,021,587, with £1,477,762 held as cash and £5,890,011 in investments. The trustees report that these levels mitigate risks associated with investment market uncertainty, noting the charity employs no staff and has no fixed cost base.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by UNW LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07434158

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sue Reece — Chair (source)
• John Reece — Director (source)
• Lauren Reece — Director (source)
• Greg Reece — Director (source)
• Ali Reece — Director (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.

• MACKAY, Dianne — director, appointed 09/08/2021on trustee list
• FLYNN, John — director, appointed 08/03/2017on trustee list
• REECE, John Peter — director, appointed 09/11/2010on trustee list
• REECE, Susan Elizabeth — director, appointed 09/11/2010not on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~219.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (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: 1.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• SUE REECEchair
• Dianne Mackay
• JOHN PETER REECE
• John Flynn · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Cumbria · Darlington · Durham · Gateshead · Lancashire · Middlesbrough · Newcastle Upon Tyne City · Northumberland

Income and spending

Common questions

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 THE REECE FOUNDATION.

• THE REECE FOUNDATION income £376k
• THE FAMILY RICH CHARITIES TRUST income £138k
• RICHARD REEVE'S FOUNDATION income £1.7m
• THE REED EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED income £2.0m
• THE RASCHE FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST income £143k
• THE REVERE CHARITABLE TRUST income £271k

Side by side with its peers

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