JOHN MARTIN'S CHARITY

Registered charity 527473 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity is a grant making trust benefiting the residents and organisations in the town of Evesham and the neighbourhood thereof, through the areas of Religious Support, Relief in Need, Education and Health.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated total income of £1,085,072, primarily from investments, while total expenditure reached £1,117,653, resulting in a net decrease in funds. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £451,196, which the trustees consider prudent for meeting governance costs and employment obligations. The auditor confirmed the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~2.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (99% 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: 1.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Julie Westlakechair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Cyril Clayton Scorse
• Darcie Sutton
• JOHN HYDE SMITH OBE
• JOHN WILSON
• Janet Ellis Osborne
• Marion Winifred Mary Griffiths
• Peter Scurfield · trustee of 1 other charity
• Philip William Airdrie · trustee of 3 other charities
• Sherraden Adelle Murphy
• Stuart Allerton
• Valerie Butler

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

Operates in: Worcestershire

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

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

• MARTIN CHARITABLE TRUST income £157k
• CHELTENHAM TOWN COMMUNITY TRUST income £442k
• THE ODIHAM CONSOLIDATED CHARITIES income £432k
• THE ANTHONY V MARTIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £484k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST. GEORGE THE MARTYR WITH ST. ALPHEGE AND ST. JUDE, SOUTHWARK income £554k
• THE EWELME EXHIBITION FOUNDATION income £227k

Side by side with its peers

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