THE W A HANDLEY CHARITY TRUST

Registered charity 230435 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The trust is a grant making trust. Grants are commonly in response to appeals in support of welfare for those who are disadvantaged, young, elderly, disabled, as well as maritime and Service causes, education, training and employment opportunities, community benefit, historic buildings, the environment, music and the arts. Grants are made out of income and not normally out of capital.

Objects

FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES ONLY.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Newcastle upon Tyne, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £508,994, which the Trustees consider sufficient to maintain operations and grant-making levels. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £386,833, supported by investment gains, and maintains adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Armstrong Watson Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2023) to "within" (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MR TONY GLENTONchair · trustee of 5 other charities
• David Milligan
• LESLIE AUSTIN CAISLEY · trustee of 1 other charity
• MR BILL DRYDEN · trustee of 2 other charities
• Sophie Louise Glenton Smith · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Cumbria · Durham · Gateshead · Hartlepool · Newcastle Upon Tyne City · North Tyneside · Northumberland · South Tyneside · Sunderland

Income and spending

Common questions

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE HUMANITARIAN TRUST.

• THE HUMANITARIAN TRUST income £240k
• THE A. H. TRUST income £359k
• HINCHLEY CHARITABLE TRUST income £106k
• THE M O G CHARITABLE TRUST income £54k
• THE LOSELEY AND GUILDWAY CHARITABLE TRUST income £83k
• THE HANLEY TRUST (1987) income £54k

Side by side with its peers

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