THE FARRER TRUST

Registered charity 800819 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The provision of secure accommodation for persons in difficult circumstances. The provision of a support network for the disabled and elderly residents. The maintenance and provision of the Village Hall for public use.

Objects

TO PAY SUCH OF THE INCOME AND CAPITAL OF THE TRUST AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DETERMINE TO SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS OR FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETEMINE.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Milton Keynes, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £1,203,507, with £800,000 specifically designated for property repairs. The trustees report adequate resources for the foreseeable future, noting that a detailed review of repair cost designations was initiated to account for expected cost increases. The charity generated a net surplus of £3,697 for the year, bringing total funds to £1,203,507.

Automated summary of the FY2025 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.

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
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ann Catherine Farrer Hartigan · trustee of 1 other charity
• DAVID WILLIAM WISE FCA · trustee of 1 other charity
• GEORGE HARTIGAN
• ROBERT READ MARCHANT

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

Operates in: Bedford

Income and spending

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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 FORT TRUST.

• THE FORT TRUST income £29k
• CLAVERHAM VILLAGE HALL income £76k
• THATCHERS FOUNDATION income £71k
• FEERING COMMUNITY CENTRE income £70k
• FAIR FROME income £254k
• NORTH FRODINGHAM SOCIAL CENTRE income £20k

Side by side with its peers

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