ELIZABETH WRIGHT

Registered charity 203896 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ELIZABETH WRIGHTS CHARITY

Education Grants. In the town of Wisbech , Cambridgeshire and Immediate surrounding areaRelief of poverty. In the town of Wisbech , Cambridgeshire and Immediate surrounding area.

Objects

1. YEARLY SUM OF $10 OR SUCH OTHER SUM AS THE COMMISSIONERS APPROVE FROM TIME TO TIME TO THE VICAR OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL WISBECH FOR PREACHING A SERMON ON ST PAUL'S DAY. 2. YEARLY SUM OF $10 OR SUCH OTHER SUM AS THE COMMISSIONERS APPROVE FROM TIME TO TIME TO THE SAID VICAR FOR PREACHING A SERMON ON ST BARNABAS' DAY. 3. SUBJECT THERETO FOR THE GENERAL BENEFIT OF THE POOR OF THE AREA OF THE ANCIENT PARISH OF WISBECH ST PETER. PREFERENCE BEING GIVEN TO THOSE WHO REGULARLY ATTEND THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER WISBECH.

Area of benefit: ANCIENT PARISH OF WISBECH ST PETER

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Fenland, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net income of £31,191 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total funds increasing to £2,314,159. The majority of assets (£2,131,485) are held in the permanent endowment fund, primarily invested in agricultural land and the COIF Charity Investment Fund. Unrestricted reserves stood at £182,674, which the trustees noted they are aware of and intend to distribute in future years in line with their charitable aims.

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.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures

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

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 4 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2024 (received 18/12/2025, 48 days after the 31/10/2025 due date); year ending 31/12/2023 (received 28/12/2024, 58 days after the 31/10/2024 due date); year ending 31/12/2022 (received 31/01/2024, 92 days after the 31/10/2023 due date); year ending 31/12/2021 (received 08/12/2022, 38 days after the 31/10/2022 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr IAIN MASONchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Russell Wate QPM · trustee of 1 other charity
• KAREN ELIZABETH CRAWLEY · trustee of 1 other charity
• KEITH WILLIAM APLIN · trustee of 2 other charities
• Richard Symond Gyles Barnwell · trustee of 8 other charities
• STEPHEN WILLIAM HARRIS · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE WRIGHT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION.

• THE WRIGHT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION income £12k
• THE ERIC WRIGHT CHARITABLE TRUST income £314.8m
• JACOB WRIGHT'S COTTAGES income £29k
• THE DIANA EDGSON WRIGHT CHARITABLE TRUST income £73k
• WISBECH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION income £335k
• LADY ELIZABETH HASTINGS' ESTATE CHARITY income £684k

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