HAMMARBANK TRUST

Registered charity 700840 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HAMMARBANK BOYS CLUB

Grants to Clubs for Young People

Objects

FOR THE PROMOTION OF THE MENTAL SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL WELL BEING OF AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF AND TRAINING IN LEADERSHIP IN BOYS AND ESPECIALLY BOYS IN POOR CIRUMSTANCES RESIDENT IN LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE BY MEANS OF THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR MENTAL, SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL TRAINING AND RECREATION.

Area of benefit: LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Amateur Sport · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cumberland, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£77k

Latest spending

£68k

Registered

1988

Accounts read

FY2026

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves stood at £19,160.67 as of 5 April 2026, an increase from the previous year. The charity generated £76,714.37 in investment income and made grants totaling £55,000. The trustees report that the charity has sufficient funds to meet its liabilities.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: suffictent reserves to maintain the current level of grants (reserves figure: £19k)

“The charity aims to holds suffictent reserves to maintain the current level of grants.” — page 4

Per its FY2026 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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.

Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Investment
Risk management

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 05/04/2026

Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 05/04/2025

Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 05/04/2024

Grant-making is its main activity

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

DAVID JAMES SYKES
GARY FRANCIS RYCROFT · trustee of 4 other charities
George Scott Parkinson · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Lancashire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
05/04/2026	£77k	£68k
05/04/2025	£61k	£62k
05/04/2024	£61k	£61k
05/04/2023	£59k	£63k
05/04/2022	£60k	£55k

Common questions

Is HAMMARBANK TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2026 accounts: The accounts state that free reserves stood at £19,160.67 as of 5 April 2026, an increase from the previous year. The charity generated £76,714.37 in investment income and made grants totaling £55,000. The trustees report that the charity has sufficient funds to meet its liabilities. Its FY2026 accounts were independently examined.

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
MENPHYS LIMITED	1	£45k

Charities like this

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

JRM TRUST income £50k
RJM CHARITY TRUST income £364k
M I CHARITABLE TRUST income £21k
NINMAH TRUST income £1.3m
THE HARAMEAD TRUST income £4.8m
SUE HAMMERSON CHARITABLE TRUST income £161k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
HAMMARBANK TRUST	£77k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
JRM TRUST FY2025	£50k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
RJM CHARITY TRUST FY2025	£364k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
M I CHARITABLE TRUST FY2024	£21k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
NINMAH TRUST FY2025	£1.3m	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE HARAMEAD TRUST FY2025	£4.8m	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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