THE ALFRED GILLETT TRUST

Registered charity 1165528 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We preserve over 100,000 historical objects and archives spanning six generations of a family firm, helping to tell the story of the development of Street as a company village with nearly 200 years of shoemaking heritage. The large and varied collections of objects, books and archives provide a rich source of information and inspiration about the Clark family, C & J Clark Ltd and the local history

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £12,921,790, though free reserves of £21,706 are below the policy target of £422,000. The charity holds a designated operating reserve of £1,415,403 to cover this shortfall and supports its operations through investment income and donations. The trustees confirm that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Alfred Gillett Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

6 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (71% 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: 3.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Cato Pedderchair
• Cllr Martin Lovell · trustee of 9 other charities
• David Berkeley Hill
• Dr Kate Rambridge
• Eleanor Gould · trustee of 1 other charity
• HUGH RUTHVEN PYM
• Patrick Colton
• Roger Michael Eckersley Maslin

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

Operates in: Somerset

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Cllr Martin Lovell — trustee here and at CLARK FOUNDATION

Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE JOSEPH AND FRANCES CLARK TRUST.

• THE JOSEPH AND FRANCES CLARK TRUST income £197k
• KIPLIN HALL CIO income £599k
• CLARK FOUNDATION income £256k
• NORTH CRAVEN BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUST income £1.1m
• SHARPE'S POTTERY HERITAGE AND ARTS TRUST LIMITED income £143k
• SPALDING GENTLEMEN'S SOCIETY income £719k

Side by side with its peers

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