THE COMMUNITY OF THE PRESENTATION TRUST

Registered charity 297268 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provides financial assistance to organisations supported by the charity

Objects

1. IN MAINTAINING AND PERSERVING IN BURIAL GROUND; 2. IN RELIEVING PERSONS WHO ARE SICK, CONVALESCENT, DISABLED, HANDICAPPED OR INFIRM (INCLUDING MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY) BY PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR ITEMS, SERVICES OR FACILITES WHICH ARE CALCULATED TO ALLEVIATE THE SUFFERING OR ASSIST THE RECOVERY OF SUCH PERSONS; 3. IN FURTHERING OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES NOT INCONSISTENT WITH THE DOCTRINES AND PRINCIPLES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND WITH A PREFERENCE FOR FURTHERING THE RELIGIOUS AND OTHER CHARITABLE WORK OF THAT CHURCH: PROVIDED THAT THE TRUSTEES MAY APPLY INCOME AND PROPERTY UNDER THIS CLAUSE EITHER DIRECTLY, OR BY MAKING PAYMENTS TO OTHER INSTITUTIONS OR ORGANISATIONS INCLUDING THE COMMUNITY.

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £1,657 for the year, driven by an unrealised investment loss of £91,532 which offset investment income and charitable expenditure. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds no free reserves, designating all unrestricted funds for future distribution, while maintaining total net assets of £2,539,567.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Sally-Ann Pickersgillchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr PHILIP RICHARD EDWARD BYWATER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Elizabeth Anne Spence
• GEOFFREY HOWARD PARSONS
• RICHARD FINLINSON MBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev David John Roper

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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• THE AA TRUST income £264k
• THE M Y A CHARITABLE TRUST income £88k
• SUPPORTING COMMUNITIES income £176k
• ONE CAN TRUST income £653k
• THE COMMUNITY STOREHOUSE income £77k
• THE ASPIRATION TRUST income £34k

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