THE PERSE TRUST

Registered charity 241971 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Operation of six almshouses.

Objects

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Area of benefit: CAMBRIDGE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cambridge, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that net assets decreased by £34,739 in the year to 30 June 2025, driven by a £30,605 loss in investment value and an expenditure excess over income. The Trustees note that investment income was insufficient to cover expenses, creating a need to increase income or reduce expenditure to ensure reserves remain adequate. Despite this, the charity maintains a positive net asset position of £672,101.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor Richard James Gilbertson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sarah Jill Tebbutt · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CHARITY SERVICE LIMITED.

• THE CHARITY SERVICE LIMITED income £1.3m
• THE P T C TRUST income £55k
• TURNER'S ALMSHOUSES income £173k
• THE QUEST TRUST income £70k
• THE P A R CHARITABLE TRUST income £75k
• THE SERSE TRUST income £12k

Side by side with its peers

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