THE PENNYCRESS TRUST

Registered charity 261536 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Grant making to smaller charities with preference to charities in Cheshire and Norfolk.

Objects

FOR ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL WITHIN THE PERIOD ENDING ON TH EIGHTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DATE HEREOF (HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS "THE TRUST PERIOD") IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION AT ANY TIME OR FROM TIME TO TIME BY DEED REVOCABLE OR IRREVOCABLE APPOINT.

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: East Hertfordshire, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £2,580,828, which the trustees describe as a reserve to enable occasional large donations. The trustees report no employees and no related party transactions, while noting that the financial statements were examined by an independent examiner who found no material issues.

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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 4 were received after the due date: year ending 05/04/2025 (received 31/03/2026, 54 days after the 05/02/2026 due date); year ending 05/04/2024 (received 26/02/2025, 21 days after the 05/02/2025 due date); year ending 05/04/2023 (received 26/02/2024, 21 days after the 05/02/2024 due date); year ending 05/04/2022 (received 11/04/2023, 65 days after the 05/02/2023 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

• CHARLES GEORGE CHOLMONDELEY
• Priscilla Dicketts
• Rose Cholmondeley

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Cheshire West & Chester · Norfolk

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

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

• THE TENDRIL TRUST income £42k
• THE NORTHWICK TRUST income £283k
• THE RELIEF TRUST income £39k
• THE PENNY TRUST income £98k
• THE HOMESTEAD CHARITABLE TRUST income £279k
• THE MANIFOLD TRUST income £84k

Side by side with its peers

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