The Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks' Charity Incorporating the Signe Trust

Analysis

The Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks' Charity Incorporating the Signe Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Alton. It was registered in June 1986, 40 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty, arts/culture/heritage/science and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending June 2025, The Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks' Charity Incorporating the Signe Trust reported income of £22k and spending of £20k, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2021 to June 2025, income fell from £24k to £22k (-9.9%), an average of -2.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income rose by 62%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks' Charity Incorporating the Signe Trust sits at the 44th percentile: it is larger than about 44% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 46th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Valentine Goodman & Great Easton Poors Charity Estates (£22k), The Redeemed Christian Church of God, Love Arena (£22k) and The Holme-Upon-Spalding Moor Relief in Need and Educational Charity (£22k).