LORD CREWE'S CHARITY

Registered charity 1155101 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity operates for the benefit of necessitous Church of England clergy in the Dioceses of Durham and Newcastle, and for charitable purposes connected with Lincoln College Oxford. It also makes a number of small annual payments to organisations and for purposes set out in the will of the founder of 1721.

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is governed by a constitution as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation and has been audited for the year ended 31 December 2024. The trustees confirm that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011 and the applicable SORP. No specific financial health metrics or reserves policies are detailed in the provided text.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

What the charity says about itself (2022)

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Paul Chandler — Chair (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• National Lottery Heritage Fund — “£235k Development Phase grant secured from the National Lottery Heritage Fund in partnership with Blanchland & Hunstanworth PCC” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

82 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (82 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~23.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (99% 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: 48.8% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/06/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/06/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/09/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jonathan Ball OBE
• Nigel Richard Clifford CBE
• Oliver Hugh Darroch Knight
• PAUL GEOFFREY CHANDLER
• Robert Thomas dePlumpton Hunter
• Simon Francis Riddell · trustee of 1 other charity
• The Venerable Catherine Ann Sourbut Groves · trustee of 2 other charities
• Ven Elizabeth Mary Wilkinson · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Durham · Newcastle Upon Tyne City · Northumberland · Oxfordshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CROWN CHURCH.

• THE CROWN CHURCH income £382k
• ST CHAD'S COLLEGE DURHAM income £4.2m
• THE OXFORD DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £28.0m
• ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, DURHAM income £8.2m
• TRINITY CHURCH OXFORD income £204k
• CHRIST'S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE FIRST FOUNDED BY KING HENRY VI OF ENGLAND AND AFTER HIS DEATH income £37.3m

Side by side with its peers

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