THE BRUE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1147054 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity operates through making grants, prioritising those projects that focus on educating individuals on a variety of religions, creating an understanding of different religions and promoting the harmonisation or integration of different religions. The charity also makes grants to charities that support children's cancer patients and their families, cancer and stroke treatment and research.

Objects

To advance such charitable purposes (according to the law of England and Wales) as the trustees see fit from time to time.

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 · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Religious Activities · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Newcastle upon Tyne, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held total net assets of £5,643,376, comprising £5,527,244 in endowment funds and £66,132 in free reserves. The trustees report a reserves policy to hold sufficient funds for anticipated annual grants estimated at £25,000, noting that free reserves significantly exceed this target. The trustees acknowledge significant uncertainty regarding the value of land investments but confirm adequate resources for foreseeable operational existence.

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 4 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.

• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07928624 · 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.

• GLENTON SMITH, Sophie Louise — director, appointed 23/07/2024not on trustee list
• GULLICK, John Robert — director, appointed 03/09/2019on trustee list
• GULLICK, Stephen — director, appointed 07/11/2016on trustee list
• GLENTON, Anthony Arthur Edward — director, appointed 30/01/2012not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• COLONEL ANTHONY ARTHUR EDWARD GLENTON CBE TD DL · trustee of 5 other charities
• John Robert Gullick
• Sophie Louise Glenton
• Stephen Gullick

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRIDGE LANE FOUNDATION LIMITED.

• BRIDGE LANE FOUNDATION LIMITED income £45k
• ROBERT BRUCE BARNES CHARITABLE TRUST income £88k
• HEATHERCOMBE BRAKE TRUST income £1.0m
• BROADMEAD TRUST FUND income £32k
• THE BREWERS FOUNDATION income £232k
• THE BROOKSIDE TRUST income £28.8m

Side by side with its peers

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