THE WRIGHT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

Registered charity 311358 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Education/Training Wisbech and immediate surrounding area

Objects

FOR THE PURPOSE OF EDUCATION

Area of benefit: ANCIENT PARISH OF WISBECH ST. PETER

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

Registered contact address: Fenland, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £246,943 for the year ended 31 December 2024, primarily from the sale of land and investment income. The trustees report that they do not consider it necessary to retain significant reserves of unrestricted funds, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £29,117. Total net assets stood at £445,944, comprising £29,117 in unrestricted funds and £416,827 in endowment funds.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 4 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2024 (received 18/12/2025, 48 days after the 31/10/2025 due date); year ending 31/12/2023 (received 28/12/2024, 58 days after the 31/10/2024 due date); year ending 31/12/2022 (received 31/01/2024, 92 days after the 31/10/2023 due date); year ending 31/12/2021 (received 08/12/2022, 38 days after the 31/10/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr IAIN MASONchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Russell Wate QPM · trustee of 1 other charity
• KAREN ELIZABETH CRAWLEY · trustee of 1 other charity
• KEITH WILLIAM APLIN · trustee of 2 other charities
• Richard Symond Gyles Barnwell · trustee of 8 other charities
• STEPHEN WILLIAM HARRIS · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ELIZABETH WRIGHT.

• ELIZABETH WRIGHT income £56k
• WISBECH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION income £335k
• THE FREDERICK WIGAN TRUST income £32k
• HERRIES EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED income £1.6m
• WITHY TREES WELFARE & EDUCATION income £794k
• WRIGHT FAMILY FOUNDATION income £26k

Side by side with its peers

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