SALFORD FOUNDATION LIMITED

Registered charity 1002482 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SALFORD BEP, SALFORD BUSINESS EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP, SALFORD COMPACT LIMITED

Education and training of children, young people and adults - Salford, Gtr Manchester, North West

Objects

1. TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE UP TO THE AGE OF 5-25 LIVING IN SALFORD, GREATER MANCHESTER AND THE NORTH WEST BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE AND ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF PHYSICAL, EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF:(A) ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS;(B) ADVANCING EDUCATION; (C) RELIEVING UNEMPLOYMENT; (D) PROVIDING RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITY IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS. 2. TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY IN SALFORD, GREATER MANCHESTER AND THE NORTH WEST. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH OR OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS; DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE, DISABILITY, ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN; POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC HABITABLE STANDARDS; CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY).

Area of benefit: MAINLY WITHIN BOUNDARIES OF SALFORD C.C. EDUCATION AUTHORITY

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Salford, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net operating deficit of £344,406 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by an 18.9% rise in expenditure to £3.9m against a 6.5% increase in income to £3.56m. Despite this deficit, the trustees report that free reserves of £1,039,467 remain within the stated policy target range of £800,000 to £1,100,000, providing a firm foundation to manage risks and anticipate a further loss of up to £190k in the coming year.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Mitchell Charlesworth (Audit) Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02472369 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Salford Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mel Goddard — Chief Executive Officer (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• KING, William John — director, appointed 04/12/2025on trustee list
• PASSI, Pradeep, Dr — director, appointed 17/07/2025on trustee list
• MCCLENAGHAN-HARROP, Robert James — director, appointed 05/12/2024on trustee list
• AIKMAN, Caroline — director, appointed 26/09/2024on trustee list
• EAMES, David — director, appointed 20/07/2023on trustee list
• MCDERMOTT, Kevin — director, appointed 14/07/2022on trustee list
• NKESHIMANA, Marie-Grace — director, appointed 15/07/2021on trustee list
• MARFLEET, Michala — director, appointed 20/02/2020on trustee list
• POTIER DE LA MORANDIERE, Katherine, Dr — director, appointed 20/03/2018not on trustee list
• FRANCIS, Katharine Selina — director, appointed 16/01/2017on trustee list
• OPENSHAW, Peter James — director, appointed 17/10/2006on trustee list
• GODDARD, Melanie Jane — secretary, appointed 01/04/2026

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/04/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Caroline Aikman
• David Eames
• Dr Katherine Potier de la Morandiere
• Dr Pradeep Passi
• Katharine Selina Francis
• Kevin McDermott
• Marie-Grace Nkeshimana
• Melissa Caslake
• Michala Marfleet
• PETER OPENSHAW
• William King

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with The Salford Trust.

• The Salford Trust income £49k
• Salford City FC Foundation income £1.7m
• SALFORD COMMUNITY & VOLUNTARY SERVICES income £6.4m
• SALFORD DISABILITY FORUM income £31k
• SALFORD COMMUNITY RELATIONS LINK PROJECT income £32k
• LONDON EDUCATION FOUNDATION income £474k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.