LADY HEWLEY'S CHARITY

Registered charity 230043 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The making of grants to Ministers, Retired Ministers and their Widows who are members of the United Reformed or Baptist churches and also students who are studying for ministries in these churches and attending certain specified colleges. Preference is given to those fro the Northern Counties of England. The management of Almshouses belonging to the trust in York

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Charity achieved a net surplus of £352,067 for the year before investment gains and losses, with total unrestricted reserves standing at £380,681. Per the trustees' report, these free reserves are maintained at a level equating to approximately twelve months of unrestricted charitable expenditure, which the Trustees consider adequate to ensure the Charity remains a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HPH. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: THE LADY HEWLEY PROPERTY COMPANY LIMITED Companies House 08218684

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~9.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (52% 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: 8.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alastair Forsyth
• Dr Andrew Graydon
• Dr DAVID STUART ROBINSON
• Dr PHILLIP ARTHUR THAKE
• NEIL MACKENZIE · trustee of 4 other charities
• Rev John Bentham
• Rev PHILIP ANDREW JUMP · trustee of 8 other charities

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

Operates in: City Of York · Lancashire · Northumberland

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ROBINSON'S RETREAT AND RELIEF CHARITIES.

• ROBINSON'S RETREAT AND RELIEF CHARITIES income £115k
• THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND PENSIONS BOARD income £42.0m
• SOUTHERNHAY UNITED REFORMED CHURCH CHARITY income £141k
• THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH (SOUTH WESTERN SYNOD) INCORPORATED income £1.0m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ALDINGBOURNE BARNHAM AND EASTERGATE income £163k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ALL SAINTS HORDLE income £172k

Side by side with its peers

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