ST. JAMES TRUST

Registered charity 203902 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ROBERT PINCHIN'S CHARITY, ST. JAMES' TRUST

Helping people in need, hardship or distress in Trowbridge & the surrounding villages.

Objects

TO RELIEVE EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE TOWN OF TROWBRIDGE WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS BY MAKING GRANTS OF MONEY OR PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR ITEMS, SERVICES, OR FACILITIES CALCULATED TO REDUCE THE NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS OF SUCH PERSONS.

Area of benefit: TROWBRIDGE AND SURROUNDING NEIGHBOURHOOD.

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wiltshire, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Trust holds a permanent endowment fund valued at £1,655,335.15 as of 31 March 2025, derived from investments and a recent land sale. The trustees report that the Trust is in a strong financial position and has sufficient funds to manage investment risks and meet future grant obligations.

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.

• Conflicting interests
• Investment
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

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 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 10/02/2024, 10 days after the 31/01/2024 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (93% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Richard Jonathan Westwoodchair
• Clair Matthews
• DAVID CHARLES CAVILL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dilys Beckett · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Jacob Eggertsen
• Stewart martin Palmen

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

Operates in: Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST JAMES MAR THOMA CHURCH-UK.

• ST JAMES MAR THOMA CHURCH-UK income £338k
• JRM TRUST income £50k
• THE TWO ST JAMES TRUST income £84k
• JOHN JAMES CHARITABLE TRUST income £344k
• THE ST JAMES THE LESS LITCHFIELD COMMUNITY TRUST income £46k
• THE STEPHENSON JAMES CHARITABLE TRUST income £135k

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