PAINSHILL PARK TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 284944 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Historic 18th Century Landscape Park

Objects

THE RESTORATION AND RESERVATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC OF THE LANDS AT COBHAM, IN THE COUNTY OF SURREY KNOWN AS PAINSBILL PARK, OR SUCH PART OR PARTS THEREOF AS THE BOARD OF MANAGEMENT OR OTHER GOVERNING BODY OF THE TRUST SHALL DETERMINE (TO AND IN A STATE AND CONDITION CORRESPONDING AS CLOSELY AS POSSIBLE TO THE CONCEPT OF PAINSHILL PARK AS AN ARTIFICIALLY LANDSCAPED GARDEN WITH A VARIETY OF SCENERY ORIGINALLY ENVISAGED BY ITS CREATOR, CHARLES WILLIAM HAMILTON) DOR THE PURPOSE OF A PUBLIC PARK.

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Elmbridge, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity has negative unrestricted reserves of £72,846, although the total net assets including restricted funds are positive at £19,521. The auditors have identified a material uncertainty related to going concern due to the trustees' recognition that the financial position is not sustainable and the strain on cashflow from a potential car park liability. Despite these issues, the trustees maintain that the organization remains a going concern based on a strategic plan and cost-saving measures.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Lewis Brownlee (Chichester) Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → material uncertainty (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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 policy and procedures
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01587910
• Trading subsidiary: PAINSHILL ENTERPRISES LIMITED Companies House 03680839 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Painshill Park Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• HOWARD, Christine Jane — director, appointed 24/09/2025on trustee list
• BIGGS, Sue-Anne Hilbre — director, appointed 24/09/2025on trustee list
• CLINTON, Clare Jade Collingwood — director, appointed 24/09/2025on trustee list
• PEARCE, Peter Huxley — director, appointed 29/03/2025on trustee list
• PEARSON, Henry James — director, appointed 28/06/2024on trustee list
• ARNOULD, Kirsten — director, appointed 28/06/2024on trustee list
• HINGLEY, Christopher David — director, appointed 23/06/2021on trustee list
• KAPADIA, Shweta Ramesh — director, appointed 23/06/2021on trustee list
• CRITCHLOW, Christopher Allan, His Honour — director, appointed 23/06/2021on trustee list
• LAMPORT, Stephen Mark Jeffrey, Sir — director, appointed 10/10/2019on trustee list
• KELLY, Peter James — director, appointed 02/04/2018on trustee list
• KELLY, Peter James — secretary, appointed 28/06/2024

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (59% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sir Stephen Lamportchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christine Jane Howard · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher David Hingley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Clare Jade Collingwood Clinton
• Dr Michael John Crawley
• Henry James Pearson · trustee of 1 other charity
• His Honour Christopher Critchlow
• Kirsten Arnould
• Peter James Kelly
• Peter Pearce
• SHWETA KAPADIA · trustee of 2 other charities
• Sue-Anne Hilbre Biggs

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SHENLEY PARK TRUST.

• SHENLEY PARK TRUST income £457k
• PARK HILL TRUST income £48k
• BLUNDELLSANDS PARK TRUST income £114k
• THE P A R CHARITABLE TRUST income £75k
• MINSTEAD HALL TRUST income £45k
• FINCHAMPSTEAD PARK income £52k

Side by side with its peers

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