CHARITY OF RICHARD CLOUDESLEY

Registered charity 205959 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RICHARD CLOUDESLEY'S CHARITY

The Charity's area of benefit is the London Borough of Islington where, through programmes of pro-active grant-making, the Charity's aim is to help those who are sick and poor and to support twenty seven Church of England churches.

Objects

28. Application of income (1) Subject as aforesaid and to clause 28(2) (below), the Trustees shall apply the income of the investments for the time being representing the investments and cash specified in Part II of the schedule hereto and one half of the residue of the yearly income of the Charity for the preservation and improvement of health and/or the relief of sickness among persons in need because of poor physical or mental health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage in the London Borough of Islington. (2) In exceptional circumstances, the Trustees may support persons otherwise eligible who are resident immediately outside of the said area but who, in the opinion of the Trustees, ought nevertheless for sufficient reason to be treated as if resident therein or who are located for the time being within that area. (3) The Trustees shall apply the other half of the residue of the yearly income of the Charity to make grants of such amount as the Trustees think fit towards the upkeep, repair and redevelopment of the fabric and facilities of any of the churches of the Church of England in the London Borough of Islington and the maintenance or development of the public acts of worship and other work of the church in those churches. For the purpose of this clause 28(3), “churches” includes all buildings, structures, gardens, paths and grounds within the curtilage of the principal place of worship and any other premises in the London Borough of Islington which are the responsibility of the incumbent and/or the Parochial Church Council of that church and used for worship or other work of the church (save for vicarages and other residential buildings).”

Area of benefit: LONDON BOROUGH OF ISLINGTON.

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income fell by 13% to £1,517,000 due to a shift in investment focus, while charitable expenditure increased by 3.9% to £3,384,000. Consequently, the charity reported a net movement in funds of a loss of £1,047,000, reducing total net assets to £56,991,000. All funds are classified as endowment funds, with unrestricted reserves effectively nil as transfers from total return are used to fund activities.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07425897

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• PENNY-ANNANG, Patrick Odai — director, appointed 12/03/2026not on trustee list
• HAYES, Ruth — director, appointed 20/03/2025not on trustee list
• ABBAS SUFI, Fatma — director, appointed 19/03/2025not on trustee list
• HORNBUCKLE, Martin Tom — director, appointed 12/06/2024not on trustee list
• KENSON, Jennifer Alice Kent — director, appointed 07/06/2023not on trustee list
• MITCHELL, Elena Ratana — director, appointed 07/06/2023not on trustee list
• WHITE, Sharon Tracey — director, appointed 09/06/2020not on trustee list
• WILLIAMSON, Flora Suzanne — director, appointed 12/02/2020not on trustee list
• JENNER, Adam Nicholas Cunningham — director, appointed 06/06/2019not on trustee list
• OLATEJU, Seun Akinshola — director, appointed 12/12/2018not on trustee list
• BURGESS, Janet Diane — director, appointed 07/03/2018not on trustee list
• RICHARDS, Delyth Ann — director, appointed 08/09/2015not on trustee list
• BARTON, Mary-Therese — director, appointed 18/03/2015not on trustee list
• GRIFFITHS, Melanie Jane — secretary, appointed 04/12/2013

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (100% 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: 48.8% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Richard Cloudesley Trustee Limited

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

Operates in: Islington

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRISTOL ECCLESIASTICAL CHARITY.

• BRISTOL ECCLESIASTICAL CHARITY income £446k
• CHRISTCHURCH (METHODIST / CHURCH OF ENGLAND ECUMENICAL PARTNERSHIP) CLEVEDON income £229k
• THE HARRY JAMES RIDDLESTON CHARITY OF LEICESTER income £28k
• TRINITY CENTRAL LONDON income £267k
• RIVERSIDE CHURCH income £547k
• ROSLYN FLORENCE HARDING income £57k

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