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.

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Latest income

£370k

Latest spending

£415k

Registered

1964

Accounts read

FY2024

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

Reserves policy: retain a balance of undistributed income from earlier years to ensure that in the event of a cessation or material fall in the income stream the trust could continue to operate whilst giving grantees due notice of reductions in future grants (held: £509k)

“The Trustees current policy is, and for some time has been, to distribute all of the income arising whilst retaining a balance of undistributed income from earlier years to ensure that in the event of a cessation or material fall in the income stream the trust could continue to operate whilst giving grantees due notice of reductions in future grants.” — page 5

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

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

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£370k	£415k
31/03/2024	£254k	£416k
31/03/2023	£181k	£397k
31/03/2022	£212k	£337k
31/03/2021	£177k	£302k

Common questions

Is THE W A HANDLEY CHARITY TRUST financially healthy?

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. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by Armstrong Watson Audit Limited.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE HELPING FOUNDATION	1	£10.0m
MAECENAS	1	£184k
THE BAND TRUST	1	£140k
CECIL PILKINGTON CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£15k

Charities like this

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

THE HANDEL HOUSE TRUST LIMITED income £982k
THE WANDS CHARITABLE TRUST income £376k
A W CHARITABLE TRUST income £17.6m
THE A. H. TRUST income £359k
THE HUMANITARIAN TRUST income £240k
MIDDLE WAY TRUST income £111k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE W A HANDLEY CHARITY TRUST	£370k	—	0	within	—	no doubt
THE HANDEL HOUSE TRUST LIMITED FY2025	£982k	£80,000 - £90,000	1	unclear	34.1%	no doubt
THE WANDS CHARITABLE TRUST FY2026	£376k	—	0	within	—	no doubt
A W CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£17.6m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE A. H. TRUST FY2025	£359k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE HUMANITARIAN TRUST FY2025	£240k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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