CHURCH AND POOR LANDS AND ANOTHER

Registered charity 243599 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Upkeep of All Saints Church and maintenance of properties held by the charity that supply income in form of rent.

Objects

1. YEARLY SUM SHALL BE PAID TO THE PARISH CLERK AND THE SEXTON OF THE PARISH CHURCH OF DOVERCOURT. 2. YEARLY SUM TO BE APPLIED FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH POOR PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE AREA OF THE ANCIENT PARISH OF DOVERCOURT EITHER IN GRANTS OF MONEY OR GIFTS IN KIND. 3. YEARLY SUM TO PROVIDE AN EXTRAORDINARY REPAIR OF THE PARISH CHURCH. 4. RESIDUE FOR MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR OF THE SAID PARISH CHURCH AND GENERAL CHURCH PURPOSES.

Area of benefit: ANCIENT PARISH OF DOVERCOURT

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: Tendring, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£49k

Latest spending

£25k

Registered

1965

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £300,648, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover one year of standard maintenance costs plus anticipated major remedial works. The majority of income is derived from cottage rents, and the charity maintains a positive cash balance of £92,854. The independent examiner confirmed that accounting records were kept and the accounts accord with those records, with no material matters requiring further attention.

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 2 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.

Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Risk management
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Volunteers: 1

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

Volunteers: 6

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

Trustees · trustee networks

George Creek
JOAN HURST
PETER DAVID FINNIGAN
SUSAN ELIZABETH SUTCLIFFE
Sharon Elmer
Sonja Edith Henderson

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£49k	£25k
31/12/2024	£50k	£25k
31/12/2023	£43k	£104k
31/12/2022	£46k	£33k
31/12/2021	£46k	£13k

Common questions

Is CHURCH AND POOR LANDS AND ANOTHER financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £300,648, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover one year of standard maintenance costs plus anticipated major remedial works. The majority of income is derived from cottage rents, and the charity maintains a positive cash balance of £92,854. The independent examiner confirmed that accounting records were kept and the accounts accord with those records, with no material matters requiring further attention. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ALL SAINTS FOUNDATION.

ALL SAINTS FOUNDATION income £35k
ALL SAINTS CHURCH CLIFTON ENDOWMENTS income £132k
ALL SAINTS CHURCH LANDS income £137k
PARISH ESTATE CHARITY (ALL SAINTS, NORTH STREET) income £25k
THE CHURCH LANDS income £849k
THE CHURCH AND POOR LANDS IN THE PARISH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, DEVIZES income £152k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
CHURCH AND POOR LANDS AND ANOTHER	£49k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
ALL SAINTS FOUNDATION FY2025	£35k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
ALL SAINTS CHURCH CLIFTON ENDOWMENTS FY2025	£132k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
ALL SAINTS CHURCH LANDS FY2025	£137k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
PARISH ESTATE CHARITY (ALL SAINTS, NORTH STREET) FY2024	£25k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE CHURCH LANDS FY2025	£849k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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