CORTON HOUSE & BREWSTER COURT

Registered charity 1160175 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE BREWSTER CHARITY, THE JOSIAH AND MARY BREWSTER CHARITABLE FUND

Provide housing accommodation and services to older persons

Causes: Accommodation/housing · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held free reserves of £930,891 as at 31 March 2025, which the Trustees consider to be appropriate and sufficient to continue as a going concern. The charity met its stated reserves policy of holding reserves equal to at least nine months of general charitable expenditure. The financial statements were audited by Lovewell Blake LLP, who reported an unqualified opinion.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Lovewell Blake LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: CORTON HOUSE LIMITED Companies House IP13969R

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Corton House & Brewster Court — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 0.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• Corton House: Requires improvement (07/06/2022) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/12/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Transferred assets to another charity (14/10/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Patricia Brocklebankchair
• Andrew Verney
• Denise Forder
• Gareth Phillips · trustee of 1 other charity
• Grace Macdonald
• Jack Minns
• Marian George
• Mark Rackham
• Richard Guthrie
• Terence Cotton

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

Operates in: Norfolk · Suffolk

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ABBEYFIELD (CAMBORNE) SOCIETY LIMITED.

• THE ABBEYFIELD (CAMBORNE) SOCIETY LIMITED income £137k
• CORNWALL OLD PEOPLE'S HOUSING SOCIETY income £2.1m
• THE ABBEYFIELD GREAT MISSENDEN AND DISTRICT SOCIETY income £355k
• THE CRANFIELD COURT CHARITY income £243k
• THE ABERFORD ALMSHOUSES income £177k
• THE ABBEYFIELD CHICHESTER SOCIETY LIMITED income £373k

Side by side with its peers

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