GLENTHORNE QUAKER CENTRE

Registered charity 232575 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHARITY CONSISTING OF THE TRUST PROPERTY KNOWN AS GLENTHORNE, GLENTHORNE COUNTRY GUEST HOUSE, GLENTHORNE QUAKER CONFERENCE CENTRE, QUAKER CONFERENCE CENTRE

to provide a place where Quaker spiritual,charitable and educational concerns can be advanced.

Objects

1) TO FURTHER THE RELIGIOUS AND OTHER CHARITABLE WORK OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) 2) THE RELIEF OF PERSONS IN NEED BY REASON OF AGE, ILL HEALTH, DISABILITY OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP IN PARTICULAR, BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION, BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR REST OR CONVALESCENCE 3) THE ADVANCEMENT OF SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE COMMITTEE SHALL THINK FIT BY THE PROVISION OF A PLACE WHERE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY MEET FOR ACTIVITIES OF AN EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE NATURE

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.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated an operational surplus of £55,130 for the year ended 30 November 2025, with total incoming resources of £651,373. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds are maintained at a level equivalent to between three and six months of expenditure, a target the trustees consider has been maintained throughout the year. The charity holds significant unrestricted reserves of £595,697 alongside restricted funds of £2,750,786.

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.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/11/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~12.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALAN ROBINSON
• Anthony Edwin Hughes
• Eleanor McCarthy
• Grace Marshall Ogilvie
• Kiran Daxini
• Patrick John Gray
• Ruth Anna Woodhead · trustee of 1 other charity
• William Newell Taylor · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MID THAMES AREA QUAKER MEETING AND RELATED CHARITIES.

• MID THAMES AREA QUAKER MEETING AND RELATED CHARITIES income £249k
• LANCASHIRE CENTRAL AND NORTH AREA QUAKER MEETING income £241k
• HERTFORD AND HITCHIN AREA MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) income £187k
• LEEDS AREA QUAKER MEETING income £232k
• TEESDALE AND CLEVELAND AREA MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) IN BRITAIN income £148k
• WEST WILTSHIRE AND EAST SOMERSET AREA MEETING income £214k

Side by side with its peers

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