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Lady Hewley's Charity

Lady Hewley's Charity is a registered charity (number 230043) based in Chester, governed by 7 trustees. Latest income £858k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £858k (2025)

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About

What it does
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities
Where
Lancashire, Northumberland, City Of York
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£858k£505k
  • 2024£463k£581k
  • 2023£378k£526k
Earlier years
  • 2022£439k£402k
  • 2021£288k£451k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

1. THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC:A) TO FURTHER THE RELIGIOUS AND OTHER CHARITABLE WORK OF BAPTIST, CONGREGATIONAL AND UNITED REFORMED CHURCH MINISTERS AND MEMBERS, INCLUDING THROUGH THE PROCLAMATION OF THE GOSPEL AND THE PROMOTION OF PREACHING, WITH A PREFERENCE FOR SUCH WORK IN AREAS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION.B) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF MEN AND WOMEN FOR THE BAPTIST, CONGREGATIONAL, AND UNITED REFORMED CHURCH MINISTRIES, BY SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES DECIDE INCLUDING THE AWARD OF GRANTS, ALLOWANCES AND OTHER FINANCIAL AND NON FINANCIAL SUPPORT.C) TO RELIEVE FROM NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS WHETHER BY REASON OF POVERTY, AGE OR DISABILITY, PERSONS WHO ARE: (I) BAPTIST, CONGREGATIONAL AND UNITED REFORMED CHURCH MINISTERS AND THEIR DEPENDANTS (II) THE DEPENDANTS OF FORMER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF ENGLAND MINISTERS(III) MEMBERS OF ANY BAPTIST, CONGREGATIONAL, OR UNITED REFORMED CHURCHBY SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES DECIDE, INCLUDING THE AWARD OF FINANCIAL AND NON FINANCIAL SUPPORT.D) TO RELIEVE NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS BY: (I) PROVIDING HOUSING ACCOMMODATION TO PERSONS WHO ARE IN NEED AND AGED OVER 55 YEARS AND OF THE PROTESTANT FAITH (II) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE MEANS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RESIDENTS AS THE TRUSTEES DECIDE.2. IN CARRYING OUT THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS, THE TRUSTEES MUST GIVE PREFERENCE TO PLACES SITUATED IN AND PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE NORTHERN COUNTIES OF ENGLAND AND THEN TO OTHER AREAS OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

8y median 7y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

15.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (2)

4
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Religious Activities 7The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 7Education/training 2

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Other services 3Health and social care 2Dormant 1

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£858k latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

9.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

0
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
230043
Status
Registered
Governing document
SCHEME DATED 16/06/2011 as amended on 04 Nov 2021
Contact on the register
01244 400315
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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