THE CHARITY OF JANE WRIGHT

Registered charity 1177600 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide Almshouse accommodation to poor persons who are resident in the City of York and to provide grants to individuals and organisations to benefit people in need who are resident in the City of York.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£116k

Latest spending

£96k

Registered

2018

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves finished the year at £165,056, which is above the trustees' stated target of £70,000. The trustees confirm that financial resources remain strong enough to proceed with current building maintenance and improvement plans.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: £70,000 (held: £165k)

“On 24 April 2014 trustees re-affirmed a decision taken on 14 February 2001 to maintain free reserves of £70,000” — page 6

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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.

Register events

Received assets from another charity (19/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

STEPHEN PAUL HALLETTchair · trustee of 1 other charity
D WOOD
DEREK WILLIAM MOTTRAM
JAMES DRAKE TAYLOR
JANE COLEMAN
Jeremy Peter Robert Nolan
Nicholas Sawyer
QUENTIN NIGEL SMALLPAGE

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

Operates in: City Of York

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£116k	£96k
31/03/2024	£125k	£136k
31/03/2023	£103k	£166k
31/03/2022	£106k	£101k
31/03/2021	£104k	£86k

Common questions

Is THE CHARITY OF JANE WRIGHT financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that free reserves finished the year at £165,056, which is above the trustees' stated target of £70,000. The trustees confirm that financial resources remain strong enough to proceed with current building maintenance and improvement plans. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
TWO RIDINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	1	£6k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PARISH FEOFFMENT AND ANN WRIGHT CHARITY.

THE PARISH FEOFFMENT AND ANN WRIGHT CHARITY income £130k
ELIZABETH JANE JONES income £738k
YORK CARES income £326k
JANE CAMERON'S OLD PEOPLE'S CHARITY income £834k
SALISBURY CITY ALMSHOUSE AND WELFARE CHARITIES income £2.5m
WILLIAM LOVETT'S ALMSHOUSE CHARITY income £491k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE CHARITY OF JANE WRIGHT	£116k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE PARISH FEOFFMENT AND ANN WRIGHT CHARITY FY2025	£130k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
ELIZABETH JANE JONES FY2025	£738k	—	—	above	—	no doubt
YORK CARES FY2025	£326k	£17,996	0	unclear	—	no doubt
JANE CAMERON'S OLD PEOPLE'S CHARITY FY2025	£834k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
SALISBURY CITY ALMSHOUSE AND WELFARE CHARITIES FY2024	£2.5m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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