THE KEPIER TRUST

Registered charity 527348 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KEPIER OLD SCHOOL TRUST

We provide, maintain and manage the Kepier Hall which is located in Houghton le Spring, Tyne and Wear. Kepier Hall and its buildings are used by the community as a whole for amongst other uses, meetings, lectures and classes, recreation and leisure.

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Latest income

£62k

Latest spending

£151k

Registered

1964

Accounts read

FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £11,125 for the year ended 31 December 2024, bringing total unrestricted reserves to £66,581. The trustees report that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The reserve policy aims to maintain six months of operational costs for the building.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: six months of operational costs (held: £67k)

“The Trust Reserve policy is to maintain the building in good order by retaining money to cover six months of operational costs and for any emergency.” — page 5

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Register events

Received assets from another charity (08/10/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Alison Young
Councillor Juliana Heron · trustee of 1 other charity
Jean Victoria Henderson
Rev John William Barron · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Sunderland

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£62k	£151k
31/12/2024	£100k	£89k
31/12/2023	£53k	£60k
31/12/2022	£51k	£56k
31/12/2021	£35k	£45k

Common questions

Is THE KEPIER TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £11,125 for the year ended 31 December 2024, bringing total unrestricted reserves to £66,581. The trustees report that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The reserve policy aims to maintain six months of operational costs for the building. Its FY2024 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds THE KEPIER TRUST?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE KEPIER TRUST as a grant recipient include SIR JOHN PRIESTMAN CHARITY TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
SIR JOHN PRIESTMAN CHARITY TRUST	FY2024	£4k	Section 2(f)

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
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR CALDERDALE	1	£7k

Charities like this

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

THE NAPIER HALL TRUST income £197k
KIPLIN HALL CIO income £599k
Kettering Town F.C. Community Trust income £157k
THE PIECE HALL TRUST income £5.2m
THE GREIG HALL income £151k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST KEA, TRURO income £326k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE KEPIER TRUST	£62k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE NAPIER HALL TRUST FY2024	£197k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
KIPLIN HALL CIO FY2025	£599k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
Kettering Town F.C. Community Trust FY2025	£157k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE PIECE HALL TRUST FY2025	£5.2m	£100,001 - £110,000	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE GREIG HALL FY2025	£151k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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