SIR JOHN PRIESTMAN CHARITY TRUST

Registered charity 209397 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The making of donations to any charitable institution for the benefit of any persons inhabitants of the county of durham and in particular of the county borough of sunderland. Building, maintaining and furnishing churches, mission halls and schools in the counties of durham and york.The relief,in necessitous circumunstances, of ministers of the church of england in the counties of durham and york.

Objects

(2) GENERAL FUND FOR:- (A) FEEDING POOR OF SUNDERLAND. (B) ANNUITIES FOR AGED & SICK OF THE COUNTY OF DURHAM (C) PROVIDING ASSISTANCE FOR YOUNG MEN FOR HOLY ORDERS IN THE C/E PROVIDED THEY ARE RESIDENT IN CO DURHAM (D) ESTABLISHMENT & MAINTENANCE OF0 HOSPITALS & CONVALESCENT HOMES FOR POOR OF DURHAM CO., (E) PROVISION OF NURSES IN DURHAM COUNTY. (F) GIFTS TO CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS. (G)(I) BUILDING & MAINTAINING OF CHURCHES &C. IN DURHAM & YORKS (II) RELIEF TO MINISTERS & CHURCH OFFICERS

Area of benefit: COUNTY BOROUGH OF SUNDERLAND AND DURHAM COUNTY

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: Sunderland, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Armstrong Watson Audit Limited. Discloses 2 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 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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)

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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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 29/01/2024, 90 days after the 31/10/2023 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 31/12/2025)

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: 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: 9.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• TIMOTHY RPS NORTONchair
• Frank Nicholson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jean Majer
• PETER WILSON TAYLOR · trustee of 1 other charity
• THOMAS WILLIAM GREENWELL

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

Operates in: Durham · Sunderland

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SOUTHAM COMMUNITY CHURCH.

• SOUTHAM COMMUNITY CHURCH income £69k
• THE PITSTONE PARISH CHARITY income £36k
• JOSEPH BROUGH CHARITABLE TRUST income £67k
• HILMARNAN CHARITABLE TRUST income £36k
• DURHAM CHRISTIAN PARTNERSHIP income £1.6m
• THE CHURCH ESTATE income £50k

Side by side with its peers

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