THE FRIENDS OF CRESSING TEMPLE

Registered charity 1166431 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE FRIENDS OF CRESSING TEMPLE GARDENS

To conserve, enhance and develop the buildings, gardens and historic site at Cressing Temple, as a unique historical, social, horticultural and educational record and resource; and to support Essex County Council in this objective, for the benefit of the people of Essex.

Objects

THE CONSERVATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE HISTORIC SITE AND GARDENS AT CRESSING TEMPLE AND THE PROMOTION OF THEIR USE BY THE PUBLIC, THROUGH THE ACTIVITIES OF A GROUP OF FRIENDS.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ceased trading on 2 December 2025 following a merger into a new Charitable Incorporated Organisation. All reserves were transferred to the new entity, and the charity's final funds as at 31st December are reported as nil.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → not a going concern (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Arts Council England National Lottery — “£27,000 grant from the Arts Council England National Lottery project has been awarded to the Friends of Cressing Temple Barns.” (source page)

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Register events

• Transferred assets to another charity (11/05/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• SUZANNE MARY LOWEchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Andrews
• JANE PALMER
• Lesley Jean Killin · trustee of 1 other charity
• Monika Curry · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).