THE SUFFOLK HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST

Registered charity 267047 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charitable purposes of the trust are to apply the income and capital of the trust to the preservation, repair, maintenance, improvement, upkeep, beautification and reconstruction of churches in Suffolk.

Objects

THE PRESERVATION, REPAIR, MAINTENANCE, IMPROVEMENT, UPKEEP, BEAUTIFICATION AND RECONSTRUCTION OF CHURCHES IN THE COUNTRY OF SUFFOLK AND OF MONUMENTS, FITTINGS, FIXTURES, STAINED GLASS, FURNITURE, ORNAMENTS AND CHATTELS IN SUCH CHURCHES AND OF THE CHURCHYARD BELONGING TO ANY OF SUCH CHURCHES.

Area of benefit: SUFFOLK

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Babergh, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2023 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased to £183,649 from £258,156 in the prior year, resulting in a net expenditure of £209,454. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £770,921, which the trustees consider adequate against a policy target of one year's income. The filing confirms no material uncertainties exist regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2023 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 05/04/2022 (received 09/11/2023, 277 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Suffolk Historic Churches Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• GEOFFREY THOMAS CARWARDINE PROBERT DLchair
• Arthur James Bethune Norman
• David Guymer King
• David Neale Gould
• HON CHARLES RICHARD BOSCAWEN · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Edward Devaux DL
• LOUDON IAN GREENLEES
• Mary Luxmoore-Styles
• Nicholas Pearson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rachel Sloane
• Rev Anthony James Redman
• Sarah Caroline Turnbull
• Simon Hugh Galwey Ronan

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• HON CHARLES RICHARD BOSCAWEN — trustee here and at The Belstead Ganzoni Charitable Settlement

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• THE SUSSEX HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST income £123k
• Historic Suffolk income £189k
• SUFFOLK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £6.8m
• CHURCH BURGESSES TRUST income £2.0m
• THE HISTORIC CHAPELS TRUST income £2.2m
• FIELDS CHURCH income £117k

Side by side with its peers

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