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Like most established parishes, several charities accumulated over the centuries. For Ashbury they are: William Phillip's (1684), Stephen Collett's (1724), William Brown's (1827), Thomas Phillips (1829) and Moses Minchin (1833). This listing contains the correspondence of the administration of the charities mainly from the 1960s and 70s. There is also a Minute Book of the Trustees of the Ashbury Charities and the correspondence that dates from 1957 to 1985.
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