The Joint Norley Community Organisations Trust

Analysis

The Joint Norley Community Organisations Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Frodsham. It was registered in November 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, arts/culture/heritage/science and amateur sport, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space, provides services and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Joint Norley Community Organisations Trust reported income of £23k and spending of £24k, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £30k to £23k (-24%), an average of -6.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 52%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, The Joint Norley Community Organisations Trust sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 47th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Horncastle Theatre Company (£23k), Severn Beach Village Hall and Playing Fields (£23k) and The Dacorum and Chiltern Potters Guild (£23k).