Woodton United Charities was set up in 1910 to combine the following individual charities set up by local benefactors:

• The Charity of Nicholas Wilton, which dates back to 1665
• Thomas Bardwell’s Gift, dating from 1719
• The Moyse Charity, dating from 1705

In 1911, these three charities were officially grouped under the collective title of Woodton United Charities.
Woodton United Charities Trust is regulated by a Charity Commission Scheme set up in 1990 and now includes a fourth charity,
the Lt Gurden Lee Memorial Charity, which dates from 1917.

Nicholas Wilton left land that originally produced two yearly rent charges of six shillings that was distributed to the poor of the village.

Thomas Bardell was the butler and clerk at Woodton Hall, he donated land at Geldeston from which rent was distributed needy villagers.

Henry Moyse left a house, barn, stable and twenty acres of land at Ellingham. It used to be let for £30 a year which was distributed in the
form of bread and money at the church.
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Lieutenant Gurden Driffield Lee was the son of the local vicar. He served in the Norfolk 2nd and 6th Battalion. He died on first of March 1916
in France and is buried at All Saints church Woodton. His brother Richard Lee sadly died in service whilst testing a new design of aeroplane.
He is also buried at All Saints.