NORMANBY CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 252102 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

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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 (held: £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.

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.

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
BRITISH HEN WELFARE TRUST	1	£600

Charities like this

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

THE NETHERBY TRUST income £1.1m
THE NORMAN FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST income £438k
SCHREIBER CHARITABLE TRUST income £820k
THE J J CHARITABLE TRUST income £842k
DELVES CHARITABLE TRUST income £222k
THE FRANK LITCHFIELD GENERAL CHARITABLE TRUST income £192k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
NORMANBY CHARITABLE TRUST	£311k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
THE NETHERBY TRUST FY2025	£1.1m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE NORMAN FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST FY2026	£438k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
SCHREIBER CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£820k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE J J CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£842k	£60,001 - £70,000	1	unclear	—	no doubt
DELVES CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£222k	—	0	above	—	no doubt

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