CORN EXCHANGE BENEVOLENT SOCIETY

Registered charity 207733 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Helps present/past employees, dependants, of grain/related trades, agricultural merchants, feed compounders, flour millers, seed processors and others. Help is to people of all ages, is usually financial, in form of grants or help with utility and other bills.

Objects

(A) THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS AND WHO ARE OR WERE ENGAGED IN THE CORN, GRAIN, SEED, CEREAL, ANIMAL FEEDINGSTUFFS, PULSES, MALT, FLOUR OR GRANARY TRADES ('THE PRIMARY OBJECTS') AND THEIR DEPENDANTS AND OF PERSONS WHO WERE DEPENDANTS OF THE PRIMARY OBJECTS AT THE TIME OF THEIR DECEASE AND THE MAKING OF GRANTS TO OTHER CHARITABLE BODIES WHICH PROVIDE BENEFIT TO PERSONS IN NEED WHO ARE OR WERE ENGAGED IN THE AFORESAID TRADES AND (B) IN PARTICULAR THE RELIEF OF:- (I) PRIMARY OBJECTS WHO ARE OR WERE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY (II) PRIMARY OBJECTS WHO ARE OR HAVE BEEN ENGAGED IN THE AFORESAID TRADES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM (III) DEPENDANTS OF PERSONS DESCRIBED IN (I) AND (II) INCLUSIVE, AND PERSONS WHO WOULD BE SO DEPENDENT BUT FOR SUCH PRIMARY OBJECT'S DEATH.

Area of benefit: GREATER LONDON OR IN THE COUNTIES ADJOINING THERETO

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total net assets increased to £5,536,530, significantly exceeding the trustees' stated reserves policy target of £30,000. The charity reported a net income of £499,374, driven primarily by investment gains, while charitable expenditure on grants totaled £39,340. The trustees and auditors confirm that resources are adequate and there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cresswells Accountants (UK) Limited. Discloses 5 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
• 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
• Risk management

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Richard Dewing
• David Andrew Wright
• JAMES PHILIP STAFFORD
• JOHN STOKOE
• MR RAY HAYES
• RICHARD DAVID COOKSLEY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard John Murray Butler
• Robert Henry John Streatfeild

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CORN EXCHANGE (NEWBURY) TRUST.

• THE CORN EXCHANGE (NEWBURY) TRUST income £2.9m
• CHARITIES ADMINISTERED BY THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF FOUNDERS income £99k
• THE STOCK EXCHANGE BENEVOLENT FUND income £742k
• JOB CHANGE income £301k
• THE BENEVOLENT SOCIETY income £149k
• GENERATION EXCHANGE income £78k

Side by side with its peers

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