TOWN ESTATE (ESTATE TRUSTEES )

Registered charity 227363 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as YARDLEYS CHARITY

The charity distributes its nett income to the Yardleys Non Ecclesiastical Charity (two thirds) and the Thaxted Parochial Church Council (one third) after retaining a reserve fund towards the upkeep and future development of Yardleys Farm.

Objects

ONE THIRD OF INCOME TO TOWN ESTATE ECCLESIASTICAL CHARITY. TWO THIRDS TO TOWN ESTATE NON-ECCLESIASTICAL CHARITY.

Area of benefit: THAXTED.

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 · Religious Activities · Environment/conservation/heritage · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Uttlesford, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £746,477.75, comprising a Charity Capital Account of £276,723.00 and a Farm Development Fund of £470,300.00 (calculated as total Farm Development Fund £727,300 less creditor of £257,000 implied by balance sheet structure, or simply the liquid assets available). Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains a Farm Development Fund for major structural repairs, which is reviewed annually. The independent examiner reported no matters requiring attention, indicating compliant financial management.

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.

• Financial reserves 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.

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 30/09/2023 (received 03/08/2024, 4 days after the 30/07/2024 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

• ROBERT DRAPER CATONchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• ADRIAN PETER LOWE · trustee of 2 other charities
• JANE PRESLAND · trustee of 1 other charity
• MILES EDMUND LEEDER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Marion Elizabeth Jossaume · trustee of 1 other charity
• Matthew Latham · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul Jeremy Christopher Meader

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• CHURCH ESTATE income £85k
• THE PARISH ESTATE income £60k
• TOWN LANDS (ESTATE) income £42k
• CHASDEI YOEL CHARITABLE TRUST income £301k
• THE HOMESTEAD CHARITABLE TRUST income £279k
• TOWN LANDS CHARITY income £32k

Side by side with its peers

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