THE THORESBY CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 277215 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To apply the trust funds to any charitable body, association or organisation, for charitable purposes.

Objects

SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

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 · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Newark and Sherwood, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£59k

Latest spending

£64k

Registered

1979

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased from £1,411,289 to £1,311,323 due to a net loss on investments of £94,779 outweighing incoming resources. The charity distributed £52,372 to charitable causes during the year. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the trust's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: funds sufficient to cover management and administration expenses (held: £1.3m)

“It is the policy of the Trust to maintain funds sufficient to cover management and administration expenses.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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.

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
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

Trustees · trustee networks

Claudia Farr
Katherine Alexandra Pierrepont
Mary Katharine Margaret Stansfeld

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

Operates in: Nottinghamshire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£59k	£64k
31/03/2024	£60k	£35k
31/03/2023	£74k	£47k
31/03/2022	£54k	£57k
31/03/2021	£47k	£27k

Common questions

Is THE THORESBY CHARITABLE TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased from £1,411,289 to £1,311,323 due to a net loss on investments of £94,779 outweighing incoming resources. The charity distributed £52,372 to charitable causes during the year. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the trust's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
MANCHESTER CITY GALLERIES TRUST	1	£135k

Charities like this

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

THE MULLION CHARITABLE TRUST income £45k
OGLESBY CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.0m
THE BARBARA WELBY TRUST income £31k
THE B S CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £226k
THE NETHERBY TRUST income £1.1m
BDO CHARITABLE TRUST income £50k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE THORESBY CHARITABLE TRUST	£59k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
THE MULLION CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£45k	—	0	below	—	no doubt
OGLESBY CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£1.0m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE BARBARA WELBY TRUST FY2025	£31k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE B S CHARITABLE FOUNDATION FY2025	£226k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE NETHERBY TRUST FY2025	£1.1m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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