THE HOBSON CHARITY LIMITED

Registered charity 326839 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The aim of the charity is to offer grants to registered charities seeking to raise the quality of life, particularly for those who are young, disadvantaged, deprived, disabled or elderly. Grants are usually confined to specific items or projects in England and Wales and settled after the purchase has been confirmed. See website for further details on how to apply www.hobsoncharity.org.uk

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity had total funds carried forward of £48,052,692 as of 31 March 2025, with unrestricted funds of £18,382,276. The trustees consider the level of unrestricted funds sufficient to respond to grant applications and cover support and governance costs, confirming adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by RSM UK Audit LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01890971

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• George Hobson — Trustee (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• HOBSON, George — director, appointed 13/05/2026on trustee list
• COOK, Emma — director, appointed 06/03/2019on trustee list
• KELSALL, Elizabeth — director, appointed 06/03/2019on trustee list
• HOBSON, Jennifer — director, appointed 05/05/2004on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~21.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

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: 9.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Elizabeth Kelsall · trustee of 1 other charity
• Emma Cook
• George Hobson
• Ms Jennifer Hobson

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE HARBORNE PARISH LANDS CHARITY.

• THE HARBORNE PARISH LANDS CHARITY income £2.0m
• THE HUBB FOUNDATION income £1.7m
• HANDS OF GIVING FOUNDATION income £123k
• THE DAVID GIBBONS FOUNDATION income £124k
• THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE ASSOCIATION FOR DISABILITY income £248k
• THE EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON TRUST income £181k

Side by side with its peers

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