THE SIR JAMES RECKITT CHARITY

Registered charity 225356 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SIR JAMES RECKITT CHARITY

The principal object of the Charity is that its income be applied to such charitable purposes as the trustees think fit but excluding any purposes they consider to be of a warlike character. Some priority is given to Quaker causes wherever they may be and a high priority is also given to causes aimed at bringing benefit to the people of Hull and East Yorkshire.

Objects

FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AND IN SUCH PROPORTIONS AND MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity's unrestricted funds are in a deficit position of £44,463, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of maintaining reserves equivalent to about three months of routine grant making. Despite this unrestricted deficit, the charity holds a substantial endowment fund valued at £59,797,645, which generated £1,741,570 in investment income for the year. The accounts state that no material uncertainties exist 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 Smailes Goldie. Discloses 5 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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 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: 11.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• SARAH HELEN CRAVENchair
• CAROLINE JENNINGS · trustee of 1 other charity
• CHARLES ARNOLD MAXSTED
• Christopher Charles Maxsted · trustee of 1 other charity
• EDWARD TRISTRAM COLLINGWOOD UPTON
• Henrietta Mary Mclay Cust
• JAMES PATRICK ATHERTON · trustee of 1 other charity
• MISS REBECCA HOLT
• MR WILLIAM UPTON
• Michelle Fisher · trustee of 2 other charities
• ONDINE ELIZABETH UPTON
• Oliver James Jennings
• PHILIP JAMES HARRISON HOLT FCA FCIE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Robert Gibson
• SIMON JAMES UPTON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sarah Jane Jones
• Simon Edward Upton

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

Operates in: East Riding Of Yorkshire · Kingston Upon Hull City

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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Side by side with its peers

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