THE JOHN AND MAUREEN BIGGADIKE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1202172 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Grant making charities to charities in the areas of Moulton, Whaplode and Weston

Objects

TO ADVANCE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES (ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES) AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME WITHIN THE SOUTH HOLLAND DISTRICT COUNCIL AREA WITH PARTICULAR PREFERENCE TO CHARITABLE PURPOSES BEING CARRIED OUT IN THE PARISHES OF MOULTON WESTON AND WHAPLODE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: South Holland, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £2,090,535, which significantly exceeds its stated policy target of maintaining six months of anticipated administrative expenditure. The charity reported a net surplus of £150,750 for the year, driven by investment income and donations, while incurring total expenditure of £100,676. 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 independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 3 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2023 (received 01/11/2024, 1 day after the 31/10/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold); recorded price paid £562k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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 (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/10/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Richard Walter Lewischair · trustee of 3 other charities
• David Hemmant
• Dennis John Grimwood
• Faye Blair LLB
• Joanna Margaret Charlton
• Mary Elizabeth Pearl
• Steven Raymond Adcock · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Lincolnshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BEDFORDSHIRE AND LUTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.

• BEDFORDSHIRE AND LUTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £5.3m
• THE JOHN GILPIN TRUST income £70k
• THE MIDDLETON FOUNDATION income £145k
• THE MORGAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £139k
• J P MOULTON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £457k
• WARRINGTON VOLUNTARY ACTION income £987k

Side by side with its peers

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