THE HONOURABLE ANN JOLIFFE CHARITY

Registered charity 217915 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL AID TO POOR WIDOWS

Objects

(1) PAYMENT OF A YEARLY SUM OF ú5.4S. TO THE VICAR OF CHEDDLETON ST. EDWARD TO BE APPLIED:- (A) ú4 FOR HIS OWN USE AND BENEFIT; (B) ú1.4S. FOR THE GENERAL BENEFIT OF DESERVING AND NECESSITOUS WIDOWS RESIDENT IN THE ANCIENT PARISH OF CHEDDLETON. (2) RESIDUE OF INCOME FOR THE GENERAL BENEFIT OF DESERVING AND NECESSITOUS WIDOWS RESIDENT IN LEEK QUARTER OF ANCIENT PARISH OF LEEK.

Area of benefit: SEE OBJECTS

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: Staffordshire Moorlands, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £838,155.53 at the end of the financial year ended 31 December 2025. The charity reported a profit for the year of £34,842.35, derived primarily from bank interest and other receipts totaling £39,992.35. The document does not provide a stated reserves policy or target against which to compare these holdings.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 1 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Investment
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2024 (received 10/12/2025, 40 days after the 31/10/2025 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• COLIN JOHN BROOMEchair
• Derek Hilyer
• Kate Nicholls · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stephen Wales
• Susan Coleman · trustee of 2 other charities
• Susan Webster

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

Operates in: Staffordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ANNIE SCHIFF CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE ANNIE SCHIFF CHARITABLE TRUST income £60k
• ANN HARRISON'S CHARITY income £35k
• SIR JOSEPH WILLIAMSON'S CHARITABLE TRUST income £187k
• JAFFE FAMILY RELIEF FUND income £68k
• H&F Giving income £504k
• THE JG CHARITABLE TRUST income £173k

Side by side with its peers

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