THE GUILD ESTATE ENDOWMENT
Registered charity 217484 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE GUILD ESTATE, THE GUILD OF ESTATE ENDOWMENT
As an endowment charity the Guild Estate's main priority is the pro-active management of its investments to maximise capital and income return within an investment policy. 36% of the clear income is paid to one specific beneficiary and the balance transferred to Stratford-upon-Avon Town Trust.
Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts
The accounts state that total income increased to £2.9m in 2024, with total net assets rising to £38.0m. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £102,709, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover ongoing administration costs for six months. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.
Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: at least £0.1m (held: £103k)
“an unrestricted reserve of at least £0.1m is held” — page 4
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Matthew Poole — 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 · instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)
Cost of raising funds
£554k
Reported reserves equal ~0.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (94% 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: 19.3% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).
- THE STRATFORD UPON AVON TOWN TRUST
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Warwickshire
Income and spending
Common questions
Is THE GUILD ESTATE ENDOWMENT financially healthy?
Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that total income increased to £2.9m in 2024, with total net assets rising to £38.0m. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £102,709, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover ongoing administration costs for six months. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by Sayer Vincent LLP.
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 COLLEGE ESTATE ENDOWMENT.
Side by side with its peers
Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.