THE CLEARY BLACKFRIARS TRUST

Registered charity 297249 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE CLEARY BLACKFRAIRS TRUST

TO PROMOTE EDUCATION AT THE KING'S SCHOOL CANTERBURYTHE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF ONE OR MORE "CLEARY SCHOLARSHIPS" FOR PUPILS OF THE KING'S SCHOOL CANTERBURYTHE MAINTENANCE OF THE BLACKFRIARS BUILDINGTHE PROMOTION OF THE ARTS

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS SHALL FOR THE TIME BEING BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE IN ENGLIS LAW; AND IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING ANY ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING OBJECTS BEING EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE: (1) THE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION AT HE KING'S SCHOOL (2) THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF ONE OR MORE SCHOLARSHIPS TO BE CALLED "CLEARY SCHOLARSHIPS" FOR PUPILS OR FORMER PUPILS AT THE KING'S SCHOOL TO BE AWARDED AT THE NOMINATION IN WRITING OF THE KING'S SCHOOL. (3) THE MAINTENANCE OF ANY HISTORIC BUILDINGS FOR THE TIME BEING VESTED IN THE TRUSTEES (4) THE PROMOTION OF THE ARTS

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

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

Latest income

£43k

Latest spending

£18k

Registered

1987

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £910,036, an increase from the previous year's £879,507, driven by investment gains and net income. The Trustees consider that the charity’s funds have adequate resources to meet its obligations and continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting. No specific reserves policy target is stated in the document.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Alliotts LLP. 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.

Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

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

Trustees · trustee networks

ALISTAIR THOMAS FREDERICK GOULD BSC MRICSchair · trustee of 1 other charity
DAVID HANNENT · trustee of 2 other charities
Jude Lowson
MR TOBY WARD

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/08/2025	£43k	£18k
31/08/2024	£43k	£2k
31/08/2023	£38k	£11k
31/08/2022	£31k	£15k
31/08/2021	£29k	£26k

Common questions

Is THE CLEARY BLACKFRIARS TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £910,036, an increase from the previous year's £879,507, driven by investment gains and net income. The Trustees consider that the charity’s funds have adequate resources to meet its obligations and continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting. No specific reserves policy target is stated in the document. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Alliotts LLP.

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
THE THALES CHARITABLE TRUST	1	—
CML - CHEVRAS MO'OZ LADOL	1	£27k
JEG TRUST LIMITED	1	£25k
THE TRUEMARK TRUST	1	£3k
FORD BRITAIN TRUST	1	£2k
BELVEDERE TRUST	1	£2k
THE ASTOR FOUNDATION	1	£1k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MERCHANT TAYLORS' EDUCATIONAL TRUST.

MERCHANT TAYLORS' EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £336k
THE CLEARY FOUNDATION income £49k
CHURCHGATE CHARITABLE TRUST income £313k
ST GREGORY'S PRE-SCHOOL LTD income £294k
KING'S SCHOOL, ROCHESTER income £13.0m
THE STARLING FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST income £578k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE CLEARY BLACKFRIARS TRUST	£43k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
MERCHANT TAYLORS' EDUCATIONAL TRUST FY2025	£336k	—	0	below	—	no doubt
THE CLEARY FOUNDATION FY2025	£49k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
CHURCHGATE CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£313k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
ST GREGORY'S PRE-SCHOOL LTD FY2025	£294k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
KING'S SCHOOL, ROCHESTER FY2025	£13.0m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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