DR PLUMES TRUST

Registered charity 254048 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of support to the teaching ministry in the parishes of Gravesend and Dartford. Provision of relief by way of monetary grants to necessitous clergy in the Church of England Diocese of Rochester as constituted on 2 September 1704, and to provide for the maintenance of Doctor Plume's grave and gravestone in the Parish of Longfield.

Objects

$300 ANNUALLY TO EACH OF THE INCUMBENTS FOR THE TIME BEING OF THE PARISHES OF DARTFORD AND GRAVESEND OF WHICH $240 EACH IS TO BE PAYABLE AS PART OF THE STIPEND OF THE CURATE IN EACH OF THESE PARISHES. SECONDLY: 1) PAYMENT TO THE INCUMBENTS FOR THE TIME BEING OF THE BENFICES OF WEST MALLING AND LONGFIELD OF NOT MORE THAN $100 EACH IN EVERY YEAR. 2) ASSISTING BY GRANTS OF MONEY NECESSITOUS CLERGYMEN BENEFICED OR LICENSED WITHIN THE OLD DIOCESE OF ROCHESTER AS CONSTITUTED ON 2ND SEPTEMBER 1704: PROVIDED THAT NO ONE CLERGYMAN SHALL RECEIVE IN ANY ONE YEAR A GRANT OR GRANTS EXCEEDING IN THE WHOLE $1000 OR SUCH OTHER AMOUNT AS THE CHARITY COMMISSIONERS FROM TIME TO TIME APPROVE. FOR DETAILS SEE VARIOUS SCHEMES MENTIONED ABOVE.

Area of benefit: DIOCESE OF ROCHESTER AS CONSTITUTED ON 2ND SEPTEMBER 1704

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 · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £118,564, supported by investment income of £26,737 and net resources used of £20,765. The trustees consider an audit unnecessary and engaged an independent examiner, who reported no matters requiring attention. The charity holds significant investments at market value (£885,802) but records them at historical cost (£183,205).

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

What the accounts disclose

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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• KENNETH WILLIAM CLARK · trustee of 2 other charities
• REV JIM FLETCHER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev CLIVE WESLEY JONES · trustee of 3 other charities
• Rev Emma Young · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev GRAHAM VICTOR HERBERT
• Rev Gordon Robert MacBean
• Rev Jocelyn Rachel Walker · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Paul Prentice · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Kent

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