THE WOODCOCK TRUST

Registered charity 1208898 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Objects

THE PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS, ESPECIALLY METHODISM, WITHIN AND AROUND ANY AREA WHICH INCLUDES BRIDLINGTON, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF HOUSING, ACCOMMODATION AND SUPPORT, AND OTHER SUCH ACTIVITIES THAT ARE INCIDENTAL, SUPPLEMENTARY OR ANCILLARY, TO THE OBJECTS OF THIS CHARITY.

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net income of £489,467, driven largely by a £479,000 revaluation uplift in its property portfolio. Free reserves stood at £97,075, which is below the stated policy target of maintaining twelve months of operational costs. The accounts were subject to independent examination rather than audit, with no matters of concern identified by the examiner.

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 3 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "below" (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.

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

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £215k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/08/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Janet Padwick
• Keith Abbott
• Peter Jay
• Ruth Cooper

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

Operates in: East Riding Of Yorkshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WOODCOCK CHARITABLE TRUST.

• WOODCOCK CHARITABLE TRUST income £315k
• THE WOODCOTE TRUST income £44k
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• THE WELL CHURCH, NORTH SWINDON income £134k
• THE WOODLEY PILOT LIGHT TRUST income £55k
• TRUST PROPERTY HELD IN CONNEXION WITH BETHESDA BAPTIST CHAPEL ROYTON income £50k

Side by side with its peers

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