ST BARTHOLOMEW'S GATEHOUSE TRUST

Registered charity 211859 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ST BARTHOLOMEW GATEHOUSE TRUST

The preservation of the historic Smithfield Gatehouse and support for the Priory Church of St Bartholomew the Great

Objects

SUCH GENERAL OF SPECIFIC CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN CONNEXION WITH THE PARISH AND THE PAROCIAL CHURCH OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW THE GREAT IN SMITHFIELD AFORESAID OR EITHER OF THEM IN SUCH PROPORTIONS AND IN SUCH MANNER IN ALL RESPECTS AS THE RECTOR AND CHURCH WARDENS FOR THE TIME BEING OF THE SAID PARISH IN THEIR ABSOLUTE AND UNCONTROLLED DISCRETION SHALL IN WRITING DIRECT, OR IN DEFAULT OF SUCH WRITING AS THE BISHOP OF LONDON SHALL DIRECT.

Area of benefit: ST. BARTHOLMEW THE GREAT WEST SMITHFIELD.

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

Causes: Religious Activities · Environment/conservation/heritage · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity complied with statutory requirements and governing documents for the year ended 31 December 2025. The trustees report that the trustee body remained unchanged and maintained good attendance at meetings. No specific financial health metrics or risks are explicitly detailed in the provided text.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2022)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (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: 0.0% of total income.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charles Richard Spanton · trustee of 4 other charities
• David Harrison · trustee of 2 other charities
• Harry Alan Cowd · trustee of 3 other charities
• MARGERY DIANA ROBERTS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael Charles Jones
• Peter Bovill
• Roy Keith Sully · trustee of 2 other charities
• The Reverend Mark Alexander Walker · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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