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Lord Crewe's Charity

Country
England & Wales
Charity number
1155101
Status
Registered
Registered
Dec. 20, 2013
Legal form
CIO

Address

Address
Lord Crewe's Charity
Cuthbert House
Stonebridge
DURHAM
DH1 3RY

Activities

The Charity operates for the benefit of necessitous Church of England clergy in the Dioceses of Durham and Newcastle, and for charitable purposes connected with Lincoln College Oxford. It also makes a number of small annual payments to organisations and for purposes set out in the will of the founder of 1721.

Objects: The objects of the CIO are, for the benefit of the public:3.1.1 The advancement of Christian religion by:(a) augmenting the stipends of necessitous clergy and their dependants in the Dioceses of Durham and Newcastle, particularly for the education of their children, and assisting them in other demonstrable charitable need;(b) the repair or construction of churches, chancels and parsonages in any ecclesiastical parish in which the charity owns land or to which the charity has the right of presentation to the benefice; and(c) providing financial support to Anglican clergy of various ecclesiastical parishes as determined by the trustees from time to time for religious education within those parishes.3.1.2 The relief of poverty by:(a) providing financial and other forms of charitable relief for the general benefit of the inhabitants of the Dioceses of Durham and Newcastle, giving preference to people and groups resident in parishes where the charity owns land or has the right of presentation to the benefice.3.1.3 The advancement of education by:(a) providing financial subsidies to university students at Lincoln College at the University of Oxford, or for any other charitable purposes connected with Lincoln College; and(b) providing other financial subsidies to educational institutions, whether in the ecclesiastical parish in which the charity owns land or has the right of presentation to the benefice or otherwise, specifically including the City of Durham.3.1.4 The relief of sickness (including physical, mental, emotional and spiritual) by providing such assistance (financial and otherwise) to such beneficiaries resident in the Dioceses of Durham and Newcastle as the trustees shall from time to time decide.3.1.5 For other charitable purposes which the trustees shall from time to time determine for the benefit of residents of the ecclesiastical parishes in which the charity owns land or to which the charity has the right of presentation to the benefice.

Classification

How
Makes Grants To Individuals, Makes Grants To Organisations
What
Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities
Who
Other Defined Groups

Areas of operation

Local Authority
Durham, Newcastle Upon Tyne City, Northumberland, Oxfordshire

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure Assets Employees Accounts
Dec. 31, 2024 £1,841,574 £2,261,409 £56,452,340 - PDF 8.8 MB
Dec. 31, 2023 £1,870,437 £1,777,536 £54,404,219 - PDF 9.2 MB
Dec. 31, 2022 £1,671,304 £2,943,535 £51,943,236 - PDF 9.7 MB
Dec. 31, 2021 £1,603,189 £1,741,880 £52,734,957 1 PDF 570.7 KB
Dec. 31, 2020 £1,445,286 £1,427,492 £47,321,680 1 PDF 991.8 KB

Trustees

Name Appointed
Jonathan Ball OBE Feb. 13, 2026
Nigel Richard Clifford CBE Sept. 1, 2024
Oliver Hugh Darroch Knight Feb. 26, 2026
Paul Geoffrey Chandler Feb. 25, 2025
Robert Thomas dePlumpton Hunter May 4, 2023
Simon Francis Riddell Feb. 14, 2023
The Venerable Catherine Ann Sourbut Groves Feb. 18, 2022
Ven Elizabeth Mary Wilkinson Jan. 1, 2025

Linked charities

  • Blanchland Village Restoration Appeal Fund (1155101-2)
  • The Lord Crewe’s Libraries And Archives Trust (1155101-3)