Bound annual reports of the Trust stacked in chronological order on a refectory side-table beside a bowl of pears.
Stewardship

What we did with the money. Plainly.

The Trust publishes a full Annual Report and audited Accounts each year, filed with the Charity Commission within seven months of our 30 September year-end. They are written so that a thoughtful neighbour can read them. We use no jargon we cannot also speak aloud.

Most recent · year ending 30 September 2024

Annual Report & Accounts 2024

"This was the year we paid out our forty-seventh small grant; the year the Pershore Hospitality Fellowship took in its three-hundredth retreatant since endowment; the year our archivist found Dom Gregory's letter to Birmingham; and the year Br. Stephen Tovey, the bursar who first kept a discretionary cheque book in 1953, died in his ninety-ninth year. It was a steady year for a steady house. We have learned to call this scale a gift, not a failure."

— from the Prior's introduction

Income
£289,819
Expenditure
£289,819
Grants paid
£74,200
Endowment value
£3.14m
CHARITY № 220012
Annual Report & Accounts
2024
THE PERSHORE NASHDOM & ELMORE TRUST · SARUM COLLEGE · SALISBURY

In short — how to read these reports

Every report has the same five sections, in this order: (1) the Prior's introduction, (2) what we did, (3) how we used the money, (4) what we are worried about, and (5) the audited accounts. If you have ten minutes, read sections 1 and 4. If you have an hour, read it all.

A note on our auditor.

The Trust is audited each year by Chamberlin & Wace LLP of Salisbury, who have been our auditors continuously since 1991. The audit fee in 2024 was £3,800. We rotate the responsible audit partner every five years (current partner: Mr. K. Llewellyn FCA, appointed 2022).

Public benefit, in the Commission's sense.

The Trustees confirm that they have had regard to the Charity Commission's guidance on public benefit when reviewing the Trust's aims and planning its activities. The advancement of religion is a charitable purpose under section 3(1)(c) of the Charities Act 2011; the relief of poverty is a charitable purpose under section 3(1)(a) of the same Act. Sunday Doors, Cloister & Common Bread, and the Pershore Hospitality Fellowship are the principal vehicles by which public benefit is delivered.