THE ROPNER CENTENARY TRUST

Registered charity 269109 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity makes an annual payment to exseafarers -mainly in the north east of england-who are suffering economic hardship. Preference is given to ex employees of The Ropner Shipping Co Ltd. The charity will also consider applications from charities with related objects.

Objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OF MARITIME EMPLOYEES, FORMER MARITIME EMPLOYEES AND DEPENDANTS PROVIDE THAT NO PAYMENT OR APPLICATION SHALL BE MADE OTHERWISE THAN FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY OR DISTRESS OR FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION. (SEE DEED OF VARIATION FOR FULL DETAILS).

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.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Darlington, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £1,326,828, driven by investment gains and income exceeding charitable expenditure. The trustees report that current free reserves provide sufficient funds to cover governance costs and respond to grant applications. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention during the examination of the accounts.

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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALAN PHILLIP THEAKSTON FCG · trustee of 1 other charity
• Henry John William Ropner
• ROBERT JAMES BRUCE ROPNER

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

Operates in: Darlington · North Yorkshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

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

• THE RANMORE CHARITABLE TRUST income £17k
• ROPNER TRUST income £59k
• THE REPPER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £56k
• THE ROPER FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST income £896k
• THE RELIEF TRUST income £39k
• TROTTER'S CHARITY income £41k

Side by side with its peers

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