HAMPTON FUEL ALLOTMENT

Registered charity 211756 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FUEL ALLOTMENT, Hampton Fund

Hampton Fuel Allotment Charity supports families and individuals on low income with a grant to help with the costs of gas and electricity; and supports organisations to provide services and activities for those in need through grantmaking.

Objects

(1) THE TRUSTEES SHALL FIRST DEFRAY OUT OF THE INCOME OF THE CHARITY THE COST OF THE MAINTENANCE AND UPKEEP OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CHARITY AND ALL OTHER CHARGES AND OUTGOINGS PAYABLE IN RESPECT THEREOF. (2) TO RELIEVE EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE AREA OF THE ANCIENT TOWN OF HAMPTON WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS. (3) TO RELIEVE PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE SAID AREA WHO ARE SICK, CONVALESCENT, DISABLED, HANDICAPPED OR INFIRM. (PLEASE SEE SCHEMES FOR DETAILS).

Area of benefit: PRIMARILY THE ANCIENT PARISH OF HAMPTON.

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

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

Registered contact address: Richmond upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Charity reported a deficit of £1.23 million for the year ended 30 June 2025, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £64.43 million to £63.20 million. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £5.03 million, representing just over 19 months of expenditure, which is below the stated policy target of 36 months. The Charity remains in a strong financial position with significant investment assets and no material uncertainties regarding its 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 Gravita Audit Oxford LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Richard Barron — Chief Executive (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.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

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

Reported reserves equal ~40.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (98% 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: 10.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adele Kimberchair
• David Edward Meggitt
• Elizabeth Mary Cooper
• GERALDINE LOCKE
• Ian Scott
• Laurence Sewell · trustee of 2 other charities
• Martin Seymour
• Philippa Jane Nunn OBE
• Richard Baker
• Robert Henry Ford
• Sharika Sharma · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Richmond Upon Thames

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HAMBLETON FOODSHARE.

• HAMBLETON FOODSHARE income £112k
• FUEL ALLOTMENT income £386k
• FRIMLEY FUEL ALLOTMENTS CIO income £257k
• UFTON NERVET FUEL ALLOTMENT CHARITY income £58k
• HALTON COMMUNITY TRANSPORT income £1.1m
• HAMPTON PAROCHIAL CHARITY income £131k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.