WICKSTEED CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1142103 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The provision for the benefit of people resident primarily, but not exclusively, in Kettering and its neighbourhood, of facilities for recreation and other leisure time occupation in the interests of social welfare to improve the conditions of life of the users of such facilities.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Recreation · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Group reported a net decrease in funds of £274,972 for the year ended 28 February 2025, driven by total expenditure exceeding total incoming resources. The Trustees consider that retained reserves of approximately £1.3m to £1.5m are sufficient to meet obligations, although the stated free reserves were a surplus of £698,309. The Group remains a going concern, supported by its trading subsidiary and a new grant to develop fundraising capabilities.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MHA. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

What the charity says about itself (2025)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Wicksteed Charitable Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 freehold); recorded price paid £235k. 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 · linkedin

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 28/02/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (93% 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: 86.7% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/11/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• OLIVER CHARLES WICKSTEEDchair
• Adrian Richard Fytche
• Catriona Mary Lougher
• Darowen Paul Jones
• Duncan Edward Lewin
• James William Edward Balding
• Linden Groves
• Paul Adam Stamper
• Rachel James
• Richard Hall
• Russell Shanley

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

Operates in: Northamptonshire

Income and spending

Common questions

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 Kettering Town F.C. Community Trust.

• Kettering Town F.C. Community Trust income £157k
• KESWICK COMMUNITY RUGBY TRUST LIMITED income £330k
• WEST WARWICKSHIRE SPORTS COMPLEX LTD income £383k
• THE KEMPSTON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £133k
• THE FITZWILLIAM WENTWORTH AMENITY TRUST income £2.1m
• WRITHLINGTON TRUST income £6.3m

Side by side with its peers

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