BOURNE UNITED CHARITIES

Registered charity 1183638 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide Almshouses, open spaces for the public and to provide relief in need; all in the Parish of Bourne, Lincolnshire

Causes: Disability · Accommodation/housing · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£1.4m

Latest spending

£1.1m

Registered

2019

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds substantial net assets of £34,326,792, with unrestricted reserves of £3,260,998. The trustees' policy is to hold sufficient liquid reserves to cover one year of charitable and administrative expenditure, estimated at £880,000, which the current unrestricted reserves exceed. The financial position is described as enabling the charity to continue fulfilling its aims, with no material uncertainties identified regarding its going concern status.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: one year of charitable and administrative expenditure (held: £3.3m)

“The Trustees’ policy is to hold sufficient liquid reserves to be able to make the weekly charitable payments for one year, and to cover other charitable and administrative expenditure for one year. For the coming year, the total cost has been estimated at £880,000.” — page 5

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Dexter & Sharpe Audit Services Ltd. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

David Mapp — Chair (source)
Nick Legge — Trust Manager (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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Total income

£1.4m

Total spending

£1.1m

Reserves (reported)

£3.3m

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~36.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (97% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

DAVID STANLEY MAPP · trustee of 1 other charity
Fiona Louise Pembery · trustee of 1 other charity
GEOFFREY RICHARD GREATWOOD · trustee of 1 other charity
IVAN JOHN STEPHEN FULLER · trustee of 1 other charity
Ian Watson
JOHN ALFRED KIRKMAN · trustee of 1 other charity
JOYCE EDITH BURROWS · trustee of 3 other charities
Jason Beedell
Leslie Panrucker · trustee of 1 other charity
Nigel Eveleigh
Paul Fellows
Philip Knowles
Rev Stephen Buckman
Susan Bennett · trustee of 1 other charity
Susan Mallett

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

Operates in: Lincolnshire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£1.4m	£1.1m
31/12/2024	£1.4m	£1.0m
31/12/2023	£1.3m	£879k
31/12/2022	£0	£0
31/12/2021	£0	£0

Common questions

Is BOURNE UNITED CHARITIES financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity holds substantial net assets of £34,326,792, with unrestricted reserves of £3,260,998. The trustees' policy is to hold sufficient liquid reserves to cover one year of charitable and administrative expenditure, estimated at £880,000, which the current unrestricted reserves exceed. The financial position is described as enabling the charity to continue fulfilling its aims, with no material uncertainties identified regarding its going concern status. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Dexter & Sharpe Audit Services Ltd.

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
TZEDOKOH VECHESED LIMITED	1	£22k
Grand Belz Ltd.	1	£0

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE LEN PICK TRUST.

THE LEN PICK TRUST income £191k
BOURNEHEIGHTS LIMITED income £959k
THE ODIHAM CONSOLIDATED CHARITIES income £432k
THE CIO OF JAMES SOUTH AND WILLIAM BURBERRY income £124k
THOMAS PHILIPOT'S ALMSHOUSE CHARITY income £379k
THE HARBORNE PARISH LANDS CHARITY income £2.0m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
BOURNE UNITED CHARITIES	£1.4m	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE LEN PICK TRUST FY2025	£191k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
BOURNEHEIGHTS LIMITED FY2024	£959k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE ODIHAM CONSOLIDATED CHARITIES FY2025	£432k	—	above	—	no doubt
THE CIO OF JAMES SOUTH AND WILLIAM BURBERRY FY2025	£124k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THOMAS PHILIPOT'S ALMSHOUSE CHARITY FY2024	£379k	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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