THE EARL OF NORTHAMPTON'S CHARITY

Registered charity 210291 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

1.The administration of almshouses in Greenwich, London and Shotesham, Norfolk.2 Welfare grants to support individuals and charities

Objects

(A) THE PROVISION OF HOUSING ACCOMMODATION FOR BENEFICIARIES ("BENEFICIARIES" MEANS POOR PERSONS OR MARRIED COUPLES OF GOOD CHARACTER WHO HAVE RESIDED OR IN THE CASE OF A MARRIED COUPLE ONE OF WHOM HAS RESIDED IN THE PRESCRIBED AREAS OF BENEFIT FOR NOT LESS THAN FOUR YEARS NEXT PRECEDING THE TIME OF APPOINTMENT);(B) SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RESIDENTS AS THE TRUSTEES DECIDE; AND(C) THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS BY THE PROVISION OF GRANTS.

Area of benefit: PLEASE REFER TO THE SCHEME.

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 · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that net assets increased to £33,513,000, with unrestricted funds of £11,465,000 and free reserves of £4,855,000. The charity reported a net income of £439,000 for the year, supported by significant investment gains of £726,000, while total charitable expenditure reached £1,774,000.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit 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
• 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
• Volunteer 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• The Clerk — Chief Executive Officer (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

Reported reserves equal ~32.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (55% 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: 5.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• THE MERCERS' COMPANY · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Norfolk · Shropshire · Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON TRUST.

• THE EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON TRUST income £204k
• THE ALDERMASTON CHARITY income £78k
• THE ERIC STANTON- NORTHAMPTON TRUST income £35k
• NORTH LONDON WELFARE AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION income £6.6m
• NORTHCHAPEL, PETWORTH AND TILLINGTON ALMSHOUSES income £85k
• THE ASHTON ALMSHOUSE CHARITY income £47k

Side by side with its peers

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