RIVERSIDE CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 264015 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as JOHN WILLIE'S TRUST LIMITED

Establish, maintain and support places of education. Establish maintain and support places providing relief for sickness and infirmity and for the aged. Relieve the poverty of any person employed or formerly employed in the shoe trade. Priority given to activities in the Rossendale area.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF THE POOR, THE AGED, THE SICK AND INFIRM, AND FOR EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER CHARITABLE PUBLIC BENEFITS. (FOR DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF THE MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 5TH APRIL 1972).

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £113,650 for the year, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted funds from £1,770,777 to £1,657,127. The trustees report that resources are adequate to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with cash at bank of £24,772 and total investments valued at £1,637,095.

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)

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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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 05/04/2025 (received 24/04/2026, 78 days after the 05/02/2026 due date); year ending 05/04/2023 (received 01/03/2024, 25 days after the 05/02/2024 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

• BARRY JOHN LYNCHchair
• ANGELA O'GORMAN
• BRIAN TERRY
• IAN BARRY DEARING
• MARK BUTTERWORTH

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with RIVERSIDE CHURCH.

• RIVERSIDE CHURCH income £547k
• RIVERSIDE CHRISTIAN CENTRE income £305k
• RIVERSIDE ADVICE LTD income £539k
• RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION income £2.5m
• RIVERSIDE ESTUARY LIMITED income £5.5m
• RIVERSIDE CHURCH TRUST income £819k

Side by side with its peers

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