STUART HOUSE TRUST
Stuart House having been renovated to continue to maintain it and to run it as an Arts and Heritage Centre for the benefit of the community and to visitors and to acquire by way of gifts or purchase items of local interest for the Centre.
Objects
1. TO RENOVATE, PRESERVE AND MAINTAIN FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE PROPERTY KNOWN AS STUART HOUSE, LISKEARD. 2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN HISTORY, PARTICULAR THE HISTORY AND HERITAGE OF CORNWALL AND THE HISTORY OF STUART HOUSE, AND ADVANCE THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY CONTINUING TO DEVELOP AND PROMOTE STUART HOUSE AS AN ARTS SAND HERITAGE CENTRE FOR SOUTH EAST CORNWALL.
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the Trust started the year with £8,464 and ended with £10,848, resulting in a net surplus of £2,383. The Trustees note that the organization needs to generate around £35,000 per year to stay afloat and relied on donations and legacies to survive potential fund shortages mid-year. The Trust holds total assets of £90,962 with no significant liabilities.
What the accounts disclose
“Café - Gross 22,966.83 less costs ~3,927.18 19,039.65”
Policies the charity declares
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
- Complaints handling
- Complaints policy and procedures
- Financial reserves policy and procedures
- Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
- Internal risk management policy and procedures
- Paying staff
- Risk management
- Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
- Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
- Volunteer management
From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025
- Volunteers: 28
- Government income: £500 — grants £500 (1); 1% of the £35,850 total gross income on the same return
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024
- Volunteers: 27
- Government income: £430 — grants £430 (1); 2% of the £25,078 total gross income on the same return
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023
- Volunteers: 15
Property (HM Land Registry)
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (26/03/2018)
Trustees
- ROBERT JOHN HOLLINGDALEchair
- ANTONY JOHN BRITTON
- Annette Louise Lee
- Jennifer Ann Chester
- Kevin Garfield Edward George
- Lynn Davies
- SUSAN GLENCROSS
- Sean Dennis Barbery
Income and spending
| Financial year end | Income | Spending |
|---|---|---|
| 31/12/2025 | £36k | £33k |
| 31/12/2024 | £25k | £36k |
| 31/12/2023 | £30k | £31k |
| 31/12/2022 | £31k | £32k |
| 31/12/2021 | £30k | £39k |
Common questions
Is STUART HOUSE TRUST financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the Trust started the year with £8,464 and ended with £10,848, resulting in a net surplus of £2,383. The Trustees note that the organization needs to generate around £35,000 per year to stay afloat and relied on donations and legacies to survive potential fund shortages mid-year. The Trust holds total assets of £90,962 with no significant liabilities. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.
Government & lottery funding
| Funder | Date | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| The National Lottery Heritage Fund | 07/11/2012 | £9k | "A Civil War Birth" |
| The National Lottery Heritage Fund | 04/11/2009 | £6k | "Liskeard Digital Heritage Trail Project" |
| The National Lottery Community Fund | 30/03/2006 | £1k | Security |
| The National Lottery Heritage Fund | 07/04/2005 | £25k | "Liskeard Heritage Trails" |
| The National Lottery Heritage Fund | 09/03/2001 | £1k | "The award will purchase improved furnishings and facilities for those using the house." |
| The National Lottery Heritage Fund | 11/12/1996 | £68k | "Stuart House Restoration" |
Funders of similar charities
| Funder | Similar charities funded | Amount to them |
|---|---|---|
| THE BAND TRUST | 1 | £325k |
| DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE'S CHARITABLE TRUST | 1 | £128k |
| THE LINBURY TRUST | 1 | £125k |
| THE ADRIAN SWIRE CHARITABLE TRUST | 1 | £20k |
| THE IDLEWILD TRUST | 1 | £10k |
| THE JOHN BOOTH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | 1 | £10k |
| THE NATIONAL MANUSCRIPTS CONSERVATION TRUST | 1 | £8k |
| SCHRODER CHARITY TRUST | 1 | £4k |
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- STROUD PRESERVATION TRUST LIMITED
- HAREWOOD HOUSE TRUST LIMITED
- STEWART VILLAGE HALL
- THE STOWE HOUSE PRESERVATION TRUST
- KENNAWAY HOUSE TRUST
- CHATSWORTH HOUSE TRUST
Side by side with its peers
| Charity | Income | Top pay band | Staff >£60k | Reserves vs policy | Fundraising cost | Going concern |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| STUART HOUSE TRUST | £36k | — | 0 | unclear | — | no doubt |
| STROUD PRESERVATION TRUST LIMITED | £36k | — | 0 | above | — | no doubt |
| HAREWOOD HOUSE TRUST LIMITED | £6.0m | — | — | below | — | noted |
| STEWART VILLAGE HALL | £42k | — | 0 | unclear | — | no doubt |
| THE STOWE HOUSE PRESERVATION TRUST | £515k | — | 0 | above | — | no doubt |
| KENNAWAY HOUSE TRUST | £144k | — | 0 | unclear | — | no doubt |