CENTRAL HARDSHIP AND RELIEF TRUST

Registered charity 801465 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE SEDGEHILL POVERTY TRUST

The charity provides relief of poverty amongst the Brethren in any part of the world by providing funds or meeting expenditure as required.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AMONGST THE BRETHREN IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD (FOR DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF THE TRUST DEED)

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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 · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £902,975 for the year ended 30 June 2025, with total income rising to £2,861,711 from £1,587,839 in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, free reserves (unrestricted reserves less fixed assets) stood at £2,537,005, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet urgent charitable needs based on their policy. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis was appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Shaw Gibbs (Audit) Limited. 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.

• 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
• 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

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.

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

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £540k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~27.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/07/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (26/11/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• SIMON RICHchair
• David Williams
• J S TEISSONNIERE ESQ
• MARK JOHN HOBBS
• TIMOTHY JAMES POCOCK

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

Operates in: Argentina · Denmark · Italy · Jamaica · New Zealand · Northern Ireland · Saint Vincent · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales · Trinidad And Tobago

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• THE TEN CHARITABLE TRUST income £589k
• THE D C TRUST income £321k
• SANCTUARY TRUST LIMITED income £3.2m
• CENTRE CHURCH income £167k
• THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY TRUST income £9.7m
• THE CHERUBY TRUST income £207k

Side by side with its peers

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