POOR'S LAND

Registered charity 212773 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GORLESTON POOR TRUSTEES

The charity provides financial assistance in the form of grants to individuals (and in appropriate circumstances, organisations) in the parish of Gorleston-On-Sea who are deemed to be in need.

Objects

TO PROVIDE FUEL FOR POOR PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE AREA OF THE ANCIENT PARISH OF GORLESTON. IF AND SO FAR THE INCOME IS NOT REQUIRED AS AFORESAID THE FOR THE RELIEF EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY OF PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE SAID AREA WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS.

Area of benefit: ANCIENT PARISH OF GORLESTON

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 · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Great Yarmouth, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £716,279.60 at the end of the year, derived from investment income and retained balances. The charity reported total income of £26,657.76 and total payments of £72,213.88, resulting in a net decrease in cash resources for the period. The trustees confirmed that the statement of account is correct and that no matters requiring attention came to the examiner's notice.

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.

• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• BARBARA WRIGHTchair
• Emma Flaxman-Taylor
• Rev Matthew James Price BEM · trustee of 3 other charities
• Shaula Reilly · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sheila Oxtoby
• Stephen Gostick · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Norfolk

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE POOR'S LAND.

• THE POOR'S LAND income £26k
• TILEHURST POOR'S LAND CHARITY income £35k
• POOR'S PLATT income £30k
• POOR'SLAND TRUST income £37k
• POOR'S ESTATE income £52k
• THE PARISH LANDS AND OTHER CHARITIES income £98k

Side by side with its peers

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