PILKINGTON CHARITIES FUND

Registered charity 225911 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE PILKINGTON CHARITIES FUND

The Charity awards grants to registered charities in the Merseyside area for the relief of poverty and sickness.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income deficit of £28,028,542 for the year ended 30 June 2025, primarily driven by charitable expenditure exceeding investment income. Per the trustees' report, the unrestricted fund balance decreased significantly from £27,934,039 to £10,826, as the trustees executed a Deed of Gift gifting the entire value of the fund to the Community Foundation for Lancashire and Merseyside. The trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

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: 12.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Neil Pilkington Joneschair · trustee of 3 other charities
• ARNOLD PHILIP PILKINGTON · trustee of 2 other charities
• Eleanor India Ashton · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Knowsley · Liverpool City · Sefton · St Helens · Wirral

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SIR HARRY PILKINGTON FUND.

• SIR HARRY PILKINGTON FUND income £183k
• BEDFORDSHIRE CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED income £372k
• SIR JULES THORN CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.9m
• MISGOV LADOCH income £233k
• GATESHEAD KEHILLA KOLLEL LTD income £875k
• LAND AND POSSESSIONS OF THE POOR OF ELY OTHERWISE PARSONS' CHARITY income £450k

Side by side with its peers

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