THAXTED RELIEF IN NEED CHARITIES

Registered charity 243782 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HUNTS AND OTHER CHARITIES

Operation of AlmshousesDistribution of funding to poor and needy within the parish of Thaxted

Objects

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Area of benefit: PARISH OF THAXTED

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Get email alerts

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

Latest income

£51k

Latest spending

£27k

Registered

1965

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a total surplus of £17,427 for the year ended 31st December 2025, with unrestricted reserves totaling £155,876. The trustees' report indicates a reserves policy aiming to retain approximately twelve months of gross income, and the current unrestricted cash balances appear to exceed this target when combined with designated funds. No material uncertainties or liabilities were disclosed in the filing.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: approximately twelve months gross income (reserves figure: £156k)

“The charities policy is to aim to distribute all of its income subject to retaining approximately twelve months gross income as a reserve against unforeseen occurrences plus amounts designated for specific future expenditure.” — page 4

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

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 31/12/2024

Grant-making is its main activity

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

Grant-making is its main activity

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2023 (received 13/11/2024, 13 days after the 31/10/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

ANDREW CLARK MCKERNANchair
ADRIAN PETER LOWE · trustee of 2 other charities
Joe Oliver Stagg
Peter Colin Burns
ROBERT DRAPER CATON · trustee of 2 other charities
SUSAN LYDIA FREEMAN · trustee of 2 other charities
Victoria Mary Alma Knight
Victoria Melanie Saych

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£51k	£27k
31/12/2024	£56k	£21k
31/12/2023	£55k	£50k
31/12/2022	£51k	£34k
31/12/2021	£67k	£54k

Common questions

Is THAXTED RELIEF IN NEED CHARITIES financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a total surplus of £17,427 for the year ended 31st December 2025, with unrestricted reserves totaling £155,876. The trustees' report indicates a reserves policy aiming to retain approximately twelve months of gross income, and the current unrestricted cash balances appear to exceed this target when combined with designated funds. No material uncertainties or liabilities were disclosed in the filing. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
UK government	01/04/2024	£2k	GCA DEL RPA UK ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP
UK government	01/04/2022	£2k	RPA BPS DOMESTIC

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ALMSHOUSE CHARITIES.

ALMSHOUSE CHARITIES income £114k
THE BERWICK ALMSHOUSE CHARITY income £61k
PAGE'S ALMSHOUSE CHARITY income £45k
ALMSHOUSE CHARITY income £33k
THETFORD MUNICIPAL AND UNITED ALMSHOUSE CHARITY income £28k
HAWLEY ALMSHOUSE AND RELIEF IN NEED CHARITY income £212k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THAXTED RELIEF IN NEED CHARITIES	£51k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
ALMSHOUSE CHARITIES FY2025	£114k	—	—	above	—	no doubt
THE BERWICK ALMSHOUSE CHARITY FY2025	£61k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
PAGE'S ALMSHOUSE CHARITY FY2025	£45k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
ALMSHOUSE CHARITY FY2024	£33k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THETFORD MUNICIPAL AND UNITED ALMSHOUSE CHARITY FY2024	£28k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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