THE HUDSON FOUNDATION

Registered charity 280332 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The activities are to aid the relief of the aged and infirm generally and without prejudice to the foregoing support other charitable causes as the Trustees shall determine. The preference for funding is to assist charitable organisations in the community of Wisbech and District.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF THE AGED AND THE RELIEF OF THE INFIRM GENERALLY.

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 · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Foundation has free reserves of £1,058,051, which exceeds its stated core reserve policy target of £200,000. The Foundation relies on a wholly owned trading subsidiary for its principal funding and reports a net resource expenditure of £120,765 for the year, yet maintains adequate resources to continue in operational existence.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Wheelers. 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.

• 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: ALAN HUDSON LIMITED Companies House 00613979 · Financial health read from its filings

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~14.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (95% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David William Ballchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• EDWARD CHARLES NEWLING
• Michael Leslie Hutchinson · trustee of 3 other charities
• STEPHEN GROUNDS LAYTON

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• THE HUTCHINSON CHARITABLE TRUST income £509k
• GEORGE HUDSON'S CHARITY income £31k
• HOBDEN FOUNDATION income £176k
• THE UDLINGTON TRUST income £312k
• HUDDERSFIELD MISSION income £547k
• THE HUSSEY FOUNDATION income £48k

Side by side with its peers

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