GREENDOWN TRUST

Registered charity 328465 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GREENDOWN TRUST LIMITED

Residential care home and sheltered housing for the elderly.

Objects

TO ASSIST NEEDY PERSONS (IRRESPECTIVE OF RELIGION) OR TO SUPPORT OR PROMOTE CHARITABLE RELIGIOUS PURPOSES CONNECTED WITH THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH IN SUCH MANNER OR WAYS AS THE CHARITY SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT AND IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT DEROGATING FROM THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST (FINANCIALLY OR AS HEREINAFTER PROVIDED) WITH THE PROVISION OF LIVING ACCOMMODATION, FURNISHED OR UNFURNISHED, AND WITH OR WITHOUT SERVICES OR OTHER FACILITIES, FOR NEEDY PERSONS , AND WHETHER BY PROVIDING, ADAPTING, IMPROVING, EQUIPPING, FURNISHING, MAINTAINING OR RUNNING HOMES, HOSTELS, HOUSES, FLATS, OR OTHER DWELLINGS OF ANY SORT OR BY OTHER MEANS.

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: Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity remains on a sound financial footing with unrestricted reserves of £2,904,833, despite a net expenditure of £82,028 for the year. The trustees confirm that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern, with the sale of a former care home property expected to provide future financial resources.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 30/09/2023 (received 31/07/2024, 1 day after the 30/07/2024 due date); year ending 30/09/2022 (received 08/08/2023, 9 days after the 30/07/2023 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02450176

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.

• CLARK, Laura — director, appointed 30/09/2025on trustee list
• BARNES, Simon William — director, appointed 31/03/2021on trustee list
• PICKERSGILL, David — director, appointed 01/07/2002not on trustee list
• COOP, Carolyne Lindsey — secretary, appointed 27/02/2023

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Greendown Trust — Deregistered, 1 registered location, last inspected 23/01/2024.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Reported reserves equal ~14.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (93% 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: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/11/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Laura Clark
• MR D PICKERSGILL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Simon William Barnes

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

Operates in: Bradford City · Leeds City · North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• THE GRAY TRUST income £114k
• SWINNERTON TRUST LIMITED income £1000k
• THE GOODENOUGH CHARITABLE TRUST income £50k
• THE HOMESTEAD CHARITABLE TRUST income £279k
• SHERBURN HOUSE CHARITY income £4.3m
• TROTTER'S CHARITY income £41k

Side by side with its peers

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