THE NELLIE FENTON TRUST FUND

Registered charity 219805 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provide relief of poverty amongst elderly persons and persons in distressed circumstances and provide a residence for impoverished persons in distressed circumstances.

Objects

1. RELIEF OF POVERTY AMONGST ELDERLY PERSONS AND AMONGST PERSONS IN DISTRESSED CIRCUMSTANCES. 2. RESIDENCE FOR IMPOVERISHED ELDERLY PERSONS AND IMPOVERISHED PERSONS IN DISTRESSED CIRCUMSTANCES BEING MEMBERS OF THE KENT QUARTERLY MEETING OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS AND OTHER IMPOVERISHED PERSONS AS THE TRUSTEES SELECT.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Accommodation/housing · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Tunbridge Wells, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £57,907 for the year ended 31 October 2025, driven by a surplus on charitable activities and significant net gains on investments. The trustees confirm that unrestricted funds of £30,844 meet their stated policy target of maintaining one year's expenditure, and they have assessed that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

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 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• REV CANON JOHN TAPPERchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• EDWARD BRIAN WALTER
• JILLIAN MARY FREESTON
• Timothy Tapper

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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• FAIRFIELD RESIDENTIAL HOME income £2.8m

Side by side with its peers

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