THE SPENCER HOMES CHARITY

Registered charity 248397 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing seven social housing units in a rural area with no public transport or shop and which provides often low income employment.

Objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE ALMSPEOPLE OF THE CHARITY OR ANY OF THEM IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT FROM TIME TO TIME.

Area of benefit: ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF LOTHERSDALE

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

Causes: Accommodation/housing · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£42k

Latest spending

£21k

Registered

1966

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £15,752 for the year ended 28 December 2025, with total net assets increasing to £458,101. The trustees confirmed that free/unrestricted reserves amounted to £76,239, which they consider prudent to avoid the necessity of realising fixed assets. The charity maintains adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: sufficient to avoid the necessity to realise fixed assets (reserves figure: £76k)

“consider it prudent that reserves should be sufficient to avoid the necessity to realise fixed assets.” — page 5

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.

Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Investment
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

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 28/12/2022 (received 15/02/2024, 110 days after the 28/10/2023 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

Dr Sally Harrison · trustee of 1 other charity
Duncan Anthony Brown · trustee of 1 other charity
HELEN ROSE MARSHALL · trustee of 1 other charity
JENNIFER YOLANDE SMITH
Kevin Narey · trustee of 2 other charities
REV GILL HALL · trustee of 1 other charity
Rev Suzanne McCarter · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: North Yorkshire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
28/12/2025	£42k	£21k
28/12/2024	£45k	£19k
28/12/2023	£40k	£20k
28/12/2022	£37k	£38k
28/12/2021	£56k	£16k

Common questions

Is THE SPENCER HOMES CHARITY financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £15,752 for the year ended 28 December 2025, with total net assets increasing to £458,101. The trustees confirmed that free/unrestricted reserves amounted to £76,239, which they consider prudent to avoid the necessity of realising fixed assets. The charity maintains adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. 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
CHARITY OF SIR RICHARD WHITTINGTON	1	£42k
THE BAND TRUST	1	£20k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF ST PHILIP'S, DORRIDGE WITH ST JAMES', BENTLEY HEATH IN THE BENEFICE OF DORRIDGE AND BENTLEY HEATH	1	£7k
HAMMERSMITH UNITED CHARITIES	1	£5k
THE SIR JAMES ROLL CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£2k
GOWLING WLG (UK) CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£500

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST CHRISTOPHER'S HOMES.

ST CHRISTOPHER'S HOMES income £3.6m
SOCIAL CARE HOUSING TRUST income £831k
THE JERICHO TRUST income £349k
THE HEAP-PARKINSON HOMES income £48k
BISHOP CREIGHTON HOUSE SETTLEMENT income £845k
PENTECOSTAL RESIDENCES CHARITY income £376k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE SPENCER HOMES CHARITY	£42k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
ST CHRISTOPHER'S HOMES FY2025	£3.6m	£60,001 - £70,000	1	above	—	no doubt
SOCIAL CARE HOUSING TRUST FY2025	£831k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE JERICHO TRUST FY2025	£349k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE HEAP-PARKINSON HOMES FY2026	£48k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
BISHOP CREIGHTON HOUSE SETTLEMENT FY2025	£845k	—	0	above	—	no doubt

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