THE PARGITER TRUST

Registered charity 1157779 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To make grants in England and Guernsey to enable disadvantaged older people to be independent, healthy and socially included.To work collaboratively to find innovative ways to help disadvantaged older people to be independent, healthy and socially included.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO PROMOTE ALL PURPOSES WHICH ARE CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES FROM TIME TO TIME AND IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION FOR THE RELIEF OF THE ELDERLY LIVING IN ENGLAND AND THE BAILIWICK OF GUERNSEY.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds total funds of £14,460,457, with free unrestricted reserves of £297,317. The trustees maintain a reserves policy to hold sufficient funds to meet one year's governance costs and cover pending grants, noting that the designated capital fund of £8,080,000 is retained for income generation in line with the founder's wishes.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by A C Mole LLP. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Suffolk Community Foundation: Pargiter Trust Fund (UK) www2.fundsforngos.org · 12/12/2021

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (78% 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: 29.3% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/11/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MRS S C GARDINERchair
• Ella Gardiner
• MARTYN MOGFORD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mike Starkey
• VICTORIA WESTHORP

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

Operates in: Guernsey · Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PETER GABRIEL TRUST.

• THE PETER GABRIEL TRUST income £136k
• THE SIR FRANCIS PEMBERTON CHARITABLE TRUST income £39k
• PRICE PARRY CHARITABLE TRUST income £80k
• THE TUDOR PRITCHARD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £55k
• THE PEWTERERS' SEAHORSE CHARITABLE TRUST income £111k
• THE PAVIORS' CHARITY income £180k

Side by side with its peers

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