The John Gurney Charitable Trust

Registered charity 285456 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as JOHN GURNEY'S CHARITABLE TRUST

To provide grants for the benefit of art,culture, sport, recreation for the inhabitants of the designated area of the charity

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Latest income

£182k

Latest spending

£214k

Registered

1982

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £604,057 alongside significant investment assets valued at £7,184,734. The trustees confirm that budgeted income and expenditure are sufficient with the level of reserves for the Trust to continue as a going concern. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £6,391 for the year, driven by investment gains that offset operational deficits.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: sufficient income to be able to make charitable donations each year and to meet the trustees' normal administration and management costs (held: £604k)

“A fund of investments has been built up to provide sufficient income to be able to make charitable donations each year and to meet the trustees' normal administration and management costs.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Trading subsidiary: Walsingham Estate Trading Limited, The Walsingham Estate Company

“Trustees, Mrs Priscilla Ann Meath Baker and Mr William John Clovis Meath Baker are directors in Walsingham Estate Management Limited and Walsingham Estate Trading Limited and directors and shareholders in its parent company The Walsingham Estate Company.” — page 16

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

Trading subsidiary: WALSINGHAM ESTATE TRADING LIMITED Companies House 07541266

WALSINGHAM ESTATE TRADING LIMITED — per its own Companies House accounts

Note 8 and Note 10 disclose intra-group balances (debtors and creditors), but no specific monetary values are provided in the text.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

PRISCILLA ANN MEATH BAKERchair
BRUCE SHERIDAN CHRISTER
THOMAS COURTAULD · trustee of 1 other charity
William John Clovis Meath Baker

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

Operates in: Norfolk

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£182k	£214k
31/03/2024	£182k	£399k
31/03/2023	£164k	£139k
31/03/2022	£152k	£171k
31/03/2021	£143k	£305k

Common questions

Is The John Gurney Charitable Trust financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £604,057 alongside significant investment assets valued at £7,184,734. The trustees confirm that budgeted income and expenditure are sufficient with the level of reserves for the Trust to continue as a going concern. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £6,391 for the year, driven by investment gains that offset operational deficits. 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
KEREN TRUST	1	£5k
MOISHE AND ESTHER ITZINGER FOUNDATION LIMITED	1	£5k
THE LAUFFER FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£5k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with G F EYRE CHARITABLE TRUST.

G F EYRE CHARITABLE TRUST income £124k
THE GUNTER CHARITABLE TRUST income £112k
THE GUY AND ELINOR MEYNELL CHARITABLE TRUST income £373k
GJPS TRUST FUND income £349k
PENINIM CHARITY TRUST income £319k
THE S AND Y CHARITABLE TRUST income £113k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
The John Gurney Charitable Trust	£182k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
G F EYRE CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£124k	—	above	—	no doubt
THE GUNTER CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£112k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE GUY AND ELINOR MEYNELL CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£373k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
GJPS TRUST FUND FY2025	£349k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
PENINIM CHARITY TRUST FY2025	£319k	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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