CHARITIES FOR ECCLESIASTICAL AND OTHER PURPOSES

Registered charity 238492 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE PICKERING FIELDS TRUST

The principal activity is the provision of a house (49 Newton Road, Knowle) for the use of the parish of Knowle. This house is leased to a member of the clergy at a market rent. From the rental income received, the charity insures the building and carries out repairs and improvements to the property.

Objects

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Area of benefit: PARISH OF KNOWLE

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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Registered contact address: Solihull, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds decreased from £779,965 to £613,483 during the year, primarily due to significant donations totaling £171,000 to the Knowle Parish Church PCC. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £613,483, which the trustees deem necessary to cover anticipated medium-term projects including fabric works and housing needs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Geoffrey Peter Lanhamchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Elizabeth Anne Welton · trustee of 2 other charities
• Roderick Brian Street · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Solihull

Income and spending

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Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• MRS LIZ WELTON — trustee here and at PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF KNOWLE, SOLIHULL
• Roderick Brian Street — trustee here and at PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF KNOWLE, SOLIHULL

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with KNOWLE UNITED CHARITY.

• KNOWLE UNITED CHARITY income £170k
• THE PARISH LANDS AND OTHER CHARITIES income £98k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF KEIGHLEY income £568k
• CHURCH HOUSE CHARITY income £33k
• DONATING CHARITY LIMITED income £1.9m
• RCCG PRAISE CHAPEL income £56k

Side by side with its peers

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