LADY ELIZABETH HASTINGS' ESTATE CHARITY

Registered charity 224098 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Management of the charity's property and investment portfolio in order to provide grant funding for educational and religious purposes.

Objects

TO MAKE PAYMENTS IN EQUAL PARTS TO:(1) LADY ELIZABETH HASTINGS' EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR APPLICATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE OBJECTS OF THAT CHARITY; AND(2) LADY ELIZABETH HASTINGS' NON-EDUCATIONAL CHARITY FOR APPLICATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE OBJECTS OF THAT CHARITY.

Area of benefit: SEE OBJECTS OF RECIPIENT CHARITIES

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: York, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an overall surplus of £1,878,268 for the year ended 24 June 2025, driven by significant gains on investments. The charity maintains sufficient cash resources to meet its obligations and holds total funds of £26,179,834, though it has no unrestricted funds. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability 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 audited by Saffery LLP. 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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07754771

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• YOUNGE, Dawn Lesley — director, appointed 04/02/2020not on trustee list
• TOWNLEY, Peter Kenneth, The Venerable — director, appointed 07/03/2014not on trustee list
• CLOSE, Stephen Roy — director, appointed 07/06/2013not on trustee list
• HARTLEY, Stewart John — director, appointed 07/06/2013not on trustee list
• SHARP, Jonathan Edward — director, appointed 17/04/2012not on trustee list
• WARRY, Peter John, Canon — director, appointed 17/04/2012not on trustee list
• GRANGER, Mark — director, appointed 26/08/2011not on trustee list
• WILTON, Christopher, Reverend — director, appointed 26/08/2011not on trustee list
• FALLOWS, Andrew James — secretary, appointed 02/03/2012

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

23 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (22 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 24/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (100% 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: 43.6% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• THE LADY ELIZABETH HASTINGS' CHARITIES TRUSTEE LIMITED

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

Operates in: Bradford City · Calderdale · City Of Wakefield · Kirklees · Leeds City · North Yorkshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHURCH ESTATE.

• CHURCH ESTATE income £85k
• ENGLISH HOLDINGS CHARITABLE TRUST income £398k
• THE PARISH ESTATE income £60k
• THE ELIZABETHAN TRUST income £261k
• DAME ELIZABETH HOLFORD'S CHARITY income £54k
• QUEEN ELIZABETH'S FOUNDATION income £46k

Side by side with its peers

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