NORMANBY CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 252102 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Trustees award grants.

Objects

TO OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES OR BODIES AS THE TRUSTEES 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.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kensington and Chelsea, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£311k

Latest spending

£274k

Registered

1961

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds decreased by £1,186,090 to £13,822,402, primarily due to a net investment loss of £1,223,773. The trustees report no material uncertainties regarding going concern and maintain a designated sink fund of £309,981 for future charitable purposes.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: sufficient funds to cover management, governance and support costs and in particular to cover the grants recommended for payment by the trustees (reserves figure: £13.5m)

“It is the policy of the charity to maintain unrestricted funds, which are the free reserves of the charity, at a level to provide sufficient funds to cover management, governance and support costs and in particular to cover the grants recommended for payment by the trustees.” — page 5

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. 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
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Investment
Risk management
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 05/04/2025

Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 05/04/2024

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.

Register events

Received assets from another charity (16/02/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Nicholas Adam Buchanchair
LADY HENRIETTA LAURA BURRIDGE
LADY LEPEL SOPHIA KORNICKI
LADY PERONEL KATHERINE CRUZ · trustee of 1 other charity
Lady Sibylla Victoria Evelyn Phipps

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

Operates in: North Yorkshire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
05/04/2025	£311k	£274k
05/04/2024	£202k	£265k
05/04/2023	£166k	£220k
05/04/2022	£158k	£470k
05/04/2021	£183k	£239k

Common questions

Is NORMANBY CHARITABLE TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted funds decreased by £1,186,090 to £13,822,402, primarily due to a net investment loss of £1,223,773. The trustees report no material uncertainties regarding going concern and maintain a designated sink fund of £309,981 for future charitable purposes. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Saffery LLP.

Charities like this

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

THE A M CHARITABLE TRUST income £157k
NORMAN WHITELEY TRUST income £233k
J AND M BRITTON CHARITABLE TRUST income £77k
G L TILLOTSON CHARITABLE TRUST income £26k
SPURRELL CHARITABLE TRUST income £87k
NORTH LONDON CHARITIES LTD income £250k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
NORMANBY CHARITABLE TRUST	£311k	—	above	—	no doubt
THE A M CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£157k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
NORMAN WHITELEY TRUST FY2025	£233k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
J AND M BRITTON CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£77k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
G L TILLOTSON CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£26k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
SPURRELL CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£87k	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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