LEMPRIERE PRINGLE 2015

Registered charity 1161516 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity is principally concerned with supporting community needs via Christian ministries in England at the suggestion of the Trustees, rather than inviting unsolicited applications. A main focus is supporting the regeneration of Bishop Auckland and surrounding area via its sister charities The Auckland Castle Trust, Zurbaran Trust and Eleven Arches.

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.

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Registered contact address: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Trust undertakes its charitable activities through grant making. For the year ended 31 March 2025, total charitable activity costs were £4,612,392, with support costs of £68,007. Investment income included dividends of £400,000 and interest received of £41,395.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited. Discloses 2 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.

• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2021 (received 20/03/2022, 48 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Reported reserves equal ~108.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (91% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/01/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JONATHAN GARNIER RUFFERchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Ashe George Russell Windham · trustee of 3 other charities
• Dr Fiona Hill
• Dr Norman MacAskill Fraser
• Edwina Blackford
• Elizabeth Hannah Booker
• Harriet Cecilia Ruffer

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• THE LIMBOURNE TRUST income £120k
• THE LIZ AND TERRY BRAMALL FOUNDATION income £2.4m
• PRICE PARRY CHARITABLE TRUST income £80k
• CAMBRIDGE PRINGLE GROUP income £822k
• THE CAMBRIDGE CHRYSALIS TRUST income £158k
• THE AUBREY ORCHARD-LISLE CHARITABLE TRUST income £107k

Side by side with its peers

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