Dickinson Massey Underwood Gill Trust

Registered charity 213884 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DICKINSON MASSEY UNDERWOOD CHARITY, Dickinson Massey Underwood Gill Charity, MARY DICKINSON'S CHARITY, MARY DICKINSON'S CHARITY FOR WIDOWS AND SPINSTERS, THE MARY DICKINSON CHARITY

To provide financial support to authorised persons by way of annual pensions or grants for specific cases of hardship.

Objects

4 (1) THE RELIEF OF PERSONS RESIDENT, OR WHO HAVE AT SOME TIME RESIDED, IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO ARE IN NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS.(2) THE TRUSTEES MUST GIVE PREFERENCE TO PERSONS WHO ARE CHRISTIANS

Area of benefit: THE CITY OF NOTTINGHAM AND THE COUNTY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, THE CITY OF DERBY, THE COUNTY OF DERBYSHIRE, THE CITY OF LINCOLN AND THE COUNTY OF LINCOLNSHIRE

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £2,184 for the year ended 31 December 2024, with total funds amounting to £2,100,170. The charity's work is almost entirely reliant on income and investment returns from its endowments, which generated £68,251 in income. The trustees maintain a reserves policy to hold enough funds to continue present activity for six months to one year in the event of other sources ceasing.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/09/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOHN CHARLES FOXONchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Brian Russell Dunn
• CHARLES NIGEL Cullen · trustee of 8 other charities
• CHRISTOPHER JOHN POWELL · trustee of 2 other charities
• Elizabeth Ann Gregory
• Harry Peter Townsend
• JANE DOROTHY MOORE
• JOHN HOWARD TREECE
• REBECCA CRAGG-DARROCH · trustee of 1 other charity
• RICHARD BULLOCK DL

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

Operates in: Nottingham City · Nottinghamshire

Income and spending

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