THE PRINKNASH ABBEY CHARITIES

Registered charity 232863 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PRINKNASH ABBEY - PRINKNASH ABBEY TRUSTEES REG

The advancement of the charitable works being carried on by the community of Benedictine monks as the Abbot shall from time to time direct.

Objects

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Area of benefit: ENGLAND AND WALES

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 · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Stroud, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £62,851 for the year ended 31 December 2025, reversing a deficit from the previous year. Free reserves stood at £2,733,436, which the Trustees consider adequate for the short to medium term, while total reserves were £5,464,593. The charity operates on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Hazlewoods LLP. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints 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
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~35.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

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

• REVEREND MARK HARGREAVES
• RT REV FRANCIS BAIRD · trustee of 1 other charity
• VERY REVEREND STEPHEN HORTON

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• ABBEY CHURCH CIO income £175k
• IBRAAZ income £3.9m
• THE ENGLISH BENEDICTINE CONGREGATION TRUST income £406k
• ABINGTON AVENUE U R C income £167k
• THE BROUGHTON CHARITABLE TRUST income £58k
• THE WESTMINSTER ABBEY TRUST income £3.1m

Side by side with its peers

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