THE ELIZABETH CREAK CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 286838 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Supporting agricultural education to appropriate training bodies.

Objects

TO SUCH CHARITIES OR FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AND IN SUCH PROPORTIONS AND IN SUCH MANNER AND SUBJECT TO SUCH TERMS AND CONDITIONS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY AT THEIR UNCONTROLLED DISCRETION DETERMINE HAVING REGARD TO ANY DIRECTIONS GIVEN OR WISHES EXPRESSED BY THE SETTLOR TO THE TRUSTEES.

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: Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Latest income
£1.4m
Latest spending
£917k
Registered
1983
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £31,854,091, representing a net surplus of £609,655 for the year. The trustees consider it appropriate to hold sufficient reserves to cover foreseeable running costs and maintain capital investment funds to generate future income. The charity has no employees and relies on investment income to fund its charitable activities.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: sufficient levels of capital investment funds... to cover foreseeable running costs (held: £31.9m)
“The trustees consider that it is appropriate to hold a level of income reserves in readily accessible assets to cover foreseeable running costs of the Trust as well as maintaining sufficient levels of capital investment funds which should generate future levels of income and capital growth to enable the Trustees to continue to make additional grant funding in pursuance of the Trust's charitable objectives.” — page 5
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Burgis & Bullock. 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Total income
£1.4m
Total spending
£917k
Cost of raising funds
£107k
Reserves (reported)
£31.9m
Employees
0

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (100% 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: 7.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Warwickshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£1.4m£917k
31/03/2024£1.2m£516k
31/03/2023£1.4m£1.6m
31/03/2022£1.4m£556k
31/03/2021£1.1m£1.3m

Common questions

Is THE ELIZABETH CREAK CHARITABLE TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £31,854,091, representing a net surplus of £609,655 for the year. The trustees consider it appropriate to hold sufficient reserves to cover foreseeable running costs and maintain capital investment funds to generate future income. The charity has no employees and relies on investment income to fund its charitable activities. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Burgis & Bullock.

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
THE DOOUSS CHARITABLE TRUST1£100k

Charities like this

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

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
THE ELIZABETH CREAK CHARITABLE TRUST£1.4m—0above—no doubt
THE CRANEDALE EDUCATIONAL CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£986k——unclear—no doubt
THE J S AND E C RYMER CHARITABLE TRUST FY2026£491k——unclear—no doubt
CAREDUCATION TRUST LTD FY2025£133k—0unclear—no doubt
THE CRANBROOK FOUNDATION FY2025£520k—0unclear—no doubt
EASTBROOK EDUCATION TRUST FY2025£2.0m—0unclear—no doubt

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