West Horsley Place Trust

Registered charity 1164840 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MARY ROXBURGHE TRUST, MRT

To preserve and maintain the house known as West Horsley Place in Surrey, together with its ancillary buildings and grounds as a place of historic and architectural interest, setting its history in a wider local and national context through a variety of teaching and learning methods. To encourage and promote the performing and visual arts.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £64,928 for the year, driven by unbudgeted costs including legal fees and professional recruitment fees. Despite this deficit, the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £595,799 and endowment funds of £14,398,475, which the trustees consider sufficient to maintain the organization as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Lewis Brownlee (Chichester) Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Ilona Harris — 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 28/02/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (58% 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: 24.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Keith Ian Robert BANNISTERchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alain Laureote
• GEOFFREY RAYMOND GRODNER
• Katharine Taylor Tett
• Marcus Nigel Cooper
• Marilyn Scott MBE
• Rebecca Labram
• Tom Foakes

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCILOF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF WEST HORSLEY,SURREY.

• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCILOF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF WEST HORSLEY,SURREY income £625k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF HORLEY income £203k
• WENTWORTH WOODHOUSE PRESERVATION TRUST income £7.1m
• HEYHOUSES CHURCH OF ENGLAND NURSERY SCHOOL LIMITED income £374k
• HYDE PARK PLACE ESTATE CHARITY income £544k
• HARRIS (BELMONT) CHARITY income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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