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The longest-registered charities still on the register

The modern register opened in 1960, so this is the order charities were entered on it, not the age of the charities themselves: many of these are centuries older.

#CharityNo.RegisteredLatest income
1Trinity College Carmarthen525786 9 September 1960£50k
2George Peabody Donation Fund206061 1 January 1961£0
3Parker Memorial Home229350 1 January 1961£0
4Parish Estate Charity (All Saints, North Street)255904 1 January 1961£25k
5Causeway Estate Charity262153 1 January 1961£7,000
6Ardina Limited262352 1 January 1961£436k
7The Aldermaston Charity262366 1 January 1961£88k
8MR H M T Gibson's Charity Trust264327 1 January 1961£18k
9The Church Charity265934 1 January 1961£450
10The George Balint Charitable Trust267482 1 January 1961£91k
11Denton Village Hall268498 1 January 1961£20k
12Millfield Community Association269754 1 January 1961£34k
13Somerset Federation of Young Farmers' Clubs273051 1 January 1961£62k
14The Andrew Balint Charitable Trust273691 1 January 1961£60k
15League of Friends, Ealing Hospital275234 1 January 1961£219k
16Headley Common Otherwise Warley Common275737 1 January 1961£7,011
17Friends of the Willis Museum280406 1 January 1961£3,253
18The Chesed Charitable Trust283671 1 January 1961£558
19Chedington Village Hall286744 1 January 1961£3,433
20Tincleton Village Hall301191 1 January 1961£4,073
21The 28TH Croydon (Our Lady of the Annunciation) Scout Group303583 1 January 1961£35k
22King George's Field304524 1 January 1961£2,098
23The Village Hall306008 1 January 1961£4,657
24The Guide Association306016 1 January 1961£31.6m
25Thomas Martyn's Foundation312364 1 January 1961£6,041
26Goodenough College312894 1 January 1961£18.4m
27Lord Kitchener National Memorial Fund313525 1 January 1961£108k
28Bracebridge Heath Village Hall504355 1 January 1961£7,453
29The Broughton Village Hall520296 1 January 1961£17k
30Church Broughton Village Hall and Playing Fields520435 1 January 1961£7,308
31Seaham District Scout Council520704 1 January 1961£31k
32Hurworth Village Hall520830 1 January 1961£21k
3324TH Picton Scout Group521595 1 January 1961£13k
341ST Whiston Scout Group521669 1 January 1961£98k
351ST Southport (Ainsdale) Scout Group521673 1 January 1961£35k
36The Fryup Dales Village Hall523341 1 January 1961£9,268
37Moorsholm Memorial Hall523385 1 January 1961£9,778
38Staffordshire County Guide Association524559 1 January 1961£296k
39North Yorkshire County Scout Council524708 1 January 1961£916k
40Isle of Anglesey District Scout Council524840 1 January 1961£26k
41Scargill's Educational Foundation527012 1 January 1961£36k
42MRS Mary King's School527761 1 January 1961£4,036
43Loughborough Endowed Schools Trust527863 1 January 1961£0
44Tutbury Educational Foundation528507 1 January 1961£662
45School Charity528508 1 January 1961£662
46Warslow and Elkstones Educational Charity528524 1 January 1961£1,512
47The Lichfield Diocesan Board of Education528561 1 January 1961£0
48United Educational Foundation528693 1 January 1961£12k
49The Educational Foundation of William Avery528702 1 January 1961£726
50Yardley Educational Foundation528918 1 January 1961£200k
51The Charity Called Handsworth Grammar School528952 1 January 1961£68k
52Knowles Educational Foundation529183 1 January 1961£4,074
53Shadwell County Primary School Parents' Association529190 1 January 1961£13k
54Kate Elizabeth Couling200988 9 January 1961£40
55Byrd's Charity (James Austin Francis Pugh and Others)204135 10 January 1961£596
56Lord Colwyn (1ST Baron) Charitable Trust222209 27 January 1961£1,909
57Friends of the Sick (Chevrat Bikkur Cholim)210472 30 January 1961£161k
58The Mark Casey Memorial Charity226352 3 February 1961£13k
59Barlow Homes for Aged Persons203035 13 February 1961£155k
60Poor's Allotments200223 20 February 1961£11k
61Allotment Charity for Poor203006 1 March 1961£3,594
62Dinnington Community Centre and Recreation Ground523912 13 March 1961£434k
63Charles Adam Prize Fund at the Commonweal Grant Maintained School309473 14 March 1961£3,344
64Charity of John Fraunceis Gwyn231389 17 March 1961£0
65ST Davids Diocesan Board of Finance231239 19 March 1961£4.9m
66The West Stockwith Gertrude Morris Memorial Hall228098 27 March 1961£4,662
67Clapham Youth Centre303132 3 April 1961£18k
68The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Cottage Homes204419 12 April 1961£10k
69The Barnstaple and North Devon Dispensary Fund215805 21 April 1961£13k
70Normanby Charitable Trust252102 21 April 1961£311k
71Colyford Memorial Hall300801 24 April 1961£33k
72Village Hall523666 24 April 1961£740
73The Malpas Institute Fund233933 28 April 1961£4,283
74The Apostolic Church284789 1 May 1961£6.4m
75Sunnyside Community Centre523569 1 May 1961£19k
76The Jessie Spencer Trust219289 2 May 1961£148k
77The Sowton Village Hall300975 2 May 1961£9,905
78Bentley Village Hall523096 2 May 1961£26k
79Recreation Ground302501 3 May 1961£0
80The Doctor Dorothy Jordan Lloyd Memorial Fund313933 3 May 1961£7,769
81Batley Grammar School Foundation529335 3 May 1961£25k
82Land Near Mount Pleasant Farm, Ireton Wood Idridgehay219723 6 May 1961£0
83The Africa Centre Limited313510 8 May 1961£643k
84Weston Parish Hall304671 12 May 1961£8,207
85Bishopswood Village Hall522610 16 May 1961£62k
86Taffs Well Village Hall524253 16 May 1961£0
87Sible Hedingham Village Hall301397 18 May 1961£5,378
88Northern College (United Reformed and Congregational)529253 25 May 1961£557k
89Altar Cottages Charity1012220 30 May 1961£13k
90Village Hall301505 31 May 1961£13k
91Esmee Fairbairn Foundation200051 7 June 1961£8.9m
92Cambridgeshire Army Cadet Force Centenary Trust Fund271635 7 June 1961£2,349
93Mursley Village Hall300308 7 June 1961£40k
94CLFS Prizes Fund312120 7 June 1961£19k
95The Showering Fund200017 8 June 1961£180k
96Hartcliffe Community House301716 8 June 1961£37k
97The D'oyly Carte Opera Trust Limited200024 12 June 1961£112k
98Wingfield Recreation Ground200114 12 June 1961£0
99The Peter Samuel Royal Free Fund200049 15 June 1961£34k
100The Barnes Fund200103 15 June 1961£811k
101Handicapped Children's Aid Committee200050 16 June 1961£272k
102Abinger Parish Recreation Grounds200125 19 June 1961£19k
103Cobham Combined Charities200148 19 June 1961£28k
104The Sir Stanley Spencer Memorial Trust307989 19 June 1961£101k
105Oxted United Charities200056 20 June 1961£5,276
106Dempster Trust200107 20 June 1961£13k
107Chobham Poor Allotments200154 20 June 1961£277k
108The Ralph Levy Charitable Company Limited200009 22 June 1961£723k
109Church and Poor's Charity200012 22 June 1961£3,907
110Mosswood Mission Hall (Trust 1188)200023 22 June 1961£527
111Bletsoe Town Close Charity200054 22 June 1961£571
112The Kempston Charities200064 22 June 1961£6,413
113Edwin Abbott Memorial Cottages200152 22 June 1961£15k
114The Hospital of ST John the Baptist200176 23 June 1961£271k
115Seagrave War Memorial Hall218276 24 June 1961£45k
116Wonersh United Charities200086 26 June 1961£9,182
117The 29TH May 1961 Charity200198 27 June 1961£6.0m
118The Whitlam Bequest224129 27 June 1961£0
119Crossley and Porter Orphan Home and School529165 27 June 1961£47k
120Abinger Consolidated Charities200124 28 June 1961£28k
121Joseph Fattorini Charitable Trust200032 29 June 1961£44k
122Turvey Non-Ecclesiastical Charities200040 29 June 1961£1,659
123Compton United Charities200150 30 June 1961£137
124Chalford Allotments for the Labouring Poor206016 2 July 1961£5,688
125Cock Lane Recreation Ground305041 2 July 1961£738
126Chew's Foundation at Dunstable307500 3 July 1961£51k
127Northill Parochial Charities200047 4 July 1961£1,993
128Henry Smith and Michael Earle Charities200043 5 July 1961£6,773
129The Federation of British Artists200048 6 July 1961£1.9m
130Residence for a Nurse and Other Purposes200237 6 July 1961£0
131Dorset Wildlife Trust200222 7 July 1961£7.3m
132West's Educational307486 7 July 1961£31k
133James J Fattorini Charitable Trust200116 13 July 1961£10k
134Walter and Elizabeth Carey Charity200163 13 July 1961£20
135The Herbert Kempson Reeves Trust Fund200213 14 July 1961£0
136The Tilford Parochial Charity200145 17 July 1961£2,299
137Brockham Recreation Ground Trust200307 17 July 1961£9,584
138The Eversholt Village Hall and Recreation Ground Charity200368 17 July 1961£64k
139William Charles Lee Sick Poor Fund200301 18 July 1961£575
140Shillington Memorial Playing Field300065 18 July 1961£42k
141Studham Village Hall300075 18 July 1961£8,561
142Henlow/Clifton Scout Group300457 18 July 1961£52k
143Smyth's Educational307450 18 July 1961£35
144Seale and Sands and Tongham Relief in Need Charity200210 19 July 1961£1,946
145William Webb, Land Forming Part of the Promenade De Verdun200228 19 July 1961£0
146Queenhill Road Playground200242 19 July 1961£0
147Rotary Field, Purley200245 19 July 1961£8,339
148Thomas Christie Ecclesiastical Charity200281 19 July 1961£501
149Govett Charity200300 19 July 1961£3,098
150Westminster Amalgamated Charity207964 19 July 1961£0