THE JOHN AND TESSA FEARNLEY CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1142793 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Animal welfare and prevention or relief of suffering,protect physical andnatural environment,alleviate the effect of natural disasters by making grants and to promote art .

Objects

4.1. THE COMPANY'S OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING: 4.1.1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF ANIMAL WELFARE AND PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF SUFFERING OF ANIMALS OF ANY KIND; 4.1.2. TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURALENVIRONMENT GENERALLY; 4.1.3. TO ALLEVIATE THE EFFECT OF NATURAL DISASTERS BY MAKING GRANTS TO CHARITABLE RELIEF ORGANISATIONS; AND 4.1.4. TO PROMOTE ART BY MAKING GRANTS TO THE NATIONAL TRUST AND SIMILAR CHARITABLE TRUSTS.

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 · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity holds total unrestricted funds of £1,575,216, with only £20,030 considered readily expendable. The trustees state there is no target reserves policy, as the aim is to gradually reduce capital to fund grants until funds cease. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 2 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.

• Complaints 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07681098 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• PENN, Joanna — director, appointed 18/08/2016on trustee list
• FEARNLEY, Tessa Margaret — director, appointed 23/06/2011on trustee list
• LEACH, Terence Raymond — director, appointed 23/06/2011on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• TESSA MARGARET FEARNLEYchair
• Joanna Penn
• TERENCE LEACH

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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