THE CHELTENHAM TRUST
Registered charity 1158606 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register
The advancement and support of education, culture, arts and heritage including the provision of museums, galleries, events and activities. The provision of facilities for recreation or other leisure time occupation in the interest of social welfare. The promotion of good health and wellbeing through community and public participation in healthy recreation and activities.
Causes: Arts/culture/heritage/science · Recreation · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the financial statements have been prepared for the year ended 31 March 2025 and include an independent auditor's report. The document lists administrative details, trustees, and advisers but does not provide specific financial figures or narrative commentary on financial health in the provided pages.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Accounts audited by Randall & Payne LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Year-over-year changes
- Going concern: material uncertainty (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).
Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.
Corporate structure
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Jessica Brewster — CEO (source)
- James Baker — Director of Operations (source)
- Clare Mathews — Finance Director (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.
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.
- JONES, Robert Crawford — director, appointed 01/10/2025on trustee list
- WILSON, Belinda Jane — director, appointed 01/10/2025on trustee list
- PICKERING, Charles — director, appointed 01/10/2025not on trustee list
- BOOTY, Harry William — director, appointed 01/10/2025on trustee list
- MARTIN, Jane, Dr — director, appointed 18/07/2024on trustee list
- GOLDSWORTHY, Julia Anne — director, appointed 18/07/2024on trustee list
- BOND, Lisa Ann Maria — director, appointed 18/07/2024on trustee list
- NAPIER, Michael Raymond — director, appointed 25/03/2024not on trustee list
- CLARK, Barbara Ann — director, appointed 28/07/2021on trustee list
- TAYLOR, Gemma — director, appointed 02/07/2021on trustee list
- PEDEN, Kate — director, appointed 03/07/2020on trustee list
Official officers record.
Property (HM Land Registry)
5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£1.6m
Reported reserves equal ~1.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (72% 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: 19.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).
- Mike Napierchair
- Belinda Jane Wilson
- Councillor Barbara Clark
- Dr Jane Martin
- Gemma Taylor
- Harry William Booty
- Joanne Elizabeth Marshall · trustee of 1 other charity
- Julia Goldsworthy
- Kate Peden
- Lisa Bond
- Richard John Lawler
- Robert Crawford Jones
- Sam Pickering
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Gloucestershire
Income and spending
Common questions
Is THE CHELTENHAM TRUST financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the financial statements have been prepared for the year ended 31 March 2025 and include an independent auditor's report. The document lists administrative details, trustees, and advisers but does not provide specific financial figures or narrative commentary on financial health in the provided pages. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Randall & Payne LLP.
Government & lottery funding
Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).
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Side by side with its peers
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