THE HUGH NEILL CHARITY

Registered charity 243806 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To be applied for such charitable purposes as the trustees in their absolute discretion shall think fit.

Objects

FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES OR OBJECTS IN SUCH PROPORTIONS AND MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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: Rotherham, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£29k

Latest spending

£29k

Registered

1965

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds carried forward are £615,351, comprising £583,735 in endowment funds and £31,616 in unrestricted funds. The trustees consider the overall finances to be sound and note that there are no material uncertainties regarding going concern. Unrestricted reserves of £31,616 are held to sustain grant levels and enable substantial grants without prejudicing normal patterns.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: prudent to hold income reserves of this order partly so that the level of grants in the immediate future can be sustained in the event of any unforeseen fall in income and partly to enable the Trustees to make one or more particularly substantial grants without prejudicing the normal pattern of grant making (reserves figure: £32k)

“The Trustees consider it to be prudent to hold income reserves of this order partly so that the level of grants in the immediate future can be sustained in the event of any unforeseen fall in income and partly to enable the Trustees to make one or more particularly substantial grants without prejudicing the normal pattern of grant making.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

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
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses 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 31/03/2025

Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 05/04/2023

Grant-making is its main activity

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

Trustees · trustee networks

James Michael Gerard Neill ACA · trustee of 3 other charities
LADY NEILL DL · trustee of 4 other charities
Lucy Liversidge
MRS ANNA JANE LEE
MRS J P HOLAH · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Barnsley · Doncaster · Rotherham · Sheffield City

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£29k	£29k
31/03/2024	£27k	£28k
05/04/2023	£27k	£28k
05/04/2022	£26k	£24k
05/04/2021	£20k	£21k

Common questions

Is THE HUGH NEILL CHARITY financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total funds carried forward are £615,351, comprising £583,735 in endowment funds and £31,616 in unrestricted funds. The trustees consider the overall finances to be sound and note that there are no material uncertainties regarding going concern. Unrestricted reserves of £31,616 are held to sustain grant levels and enable substantial grants without prejudicing normal patterns. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
ST. NICHOLAS' EDUCATIONAL TRUST	1	£4k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE GEOFF HILL CHARITABLE TRUST.

THE GEOFF HILL CHARITABLE TRUST income £73k
SIR HAROLD HOOD'S CHARITABLE TRUST income £740k
G F EYRE CHARITABLE TRUST income £124k
THE EARLE AND STUART CHARITABLE TRUST income £83k
THE WALTER HIGGS CHARITABLE TRUST income £47k
THE HALE TRUST income £34k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE HUGH NEILL CHARITY	£29k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE GEOFF HILL CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£73k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
SIR HAROLD HOOD'S CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£740k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
G F EYRE CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£124k	—	above	—	no doubt
THE EARLE AND STUART CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£83k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE WALTER HIGGS CHARITABLE TRUST FY2026	£47k	—	above	—	no doubt

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