WALLICH-CLIFFORD COMMUNITY

Registered charity 1004103 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE WALLICH

The objects of the charity as stated in the Memorandum and Articles of Association are the support of persons who are in need or who are homeless or who are suffering from psychological or physical probelms who are in need of help in acquiring a settled life.

Objects

'THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ('OBJECTS') (WHICH SHALL BE NON-SECTARIAN AND NON POLITICAL) ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE CARE AND TREATMENT OF PERSONS WHO ARE IN NEED OR WHO ARE HOMELESS OR WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM PSYCHOLOGICAL OR PHYSICAL PROBLEMS OR WHO (BY REASON OF ADVERSE CIRCUMSTANCES, ILL HEALTH OR BEING AN EX-OFFENDER) ARE IN NEED OF HELP IN ACQUIRING A SETTLED WAY OF LIFE; THE PROVISION OF ASSISTANCE TO SUCH PERSONS TO GAIN ACCESS TO SERVICES APPROPRIATE TO THEIR NEEDS, SO THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED; AND THE EDUCATION OF AND PROVISION OF LEISURE AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR SUCH PERSONS IN ORDER TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES SO THAT THEY DEVELOP FULL MATURITY AS RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS AS MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND SO THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO EDUCATION, LEISURE AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES IN THE FIELDS OF ARTS, CULTURE AND AMATEUR SPORT)'.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cardiff, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a net surplus of £238k for the year ended 31 March 2025, a significant improvement from the £1.6m deficit in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stand at £5.9m, which the Trustees assess as sufficient to support day-to-day operations and unforeseen contingencies. The charity maintains a reserves policy target of covering 13 weeks of core activities, a threshold well exceeded by the current free reserves.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HSJ Audit Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Wallich (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sian Aldridge — Chief Executive (source)
• Tom Hall — Director of People and Talent (source)
• Tracey Marsh — Director of Finance (source)
• Mike Bobbett — Associate Director of Business Innovation (source)
• Sophie Haworth-Booth — Interim Director of Operations (source)
• Phill Stapley — Interim Director of Operations (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.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Property (HM Land Registry)

14 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (13 freehold); recorded price paid £1.2m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (6,754 followers) · instagram (3,217 followers)

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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: 1.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Oliver Benedict Townsendchair
• Dr Helen Catherine Williams
• Eleanor Sian Hetenyi
• Kirsty Angharad Ellis
• Lauren Rebecca Howells
• Polly Roisin Thompson
• Siobhan Williams

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

Operates in: Throughout Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WEALDEN CITIZENS ADVICE.

• WEALDEN CITIZENS ADVICE income £391k
• THE COMMUNITY OF RECONCILIATION AND FELLOWSHIP income £152k
• WOOLWICH SERVICE USERS PROJECT income £185k
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• WIRRAL CHRISTIAN CENTRE TRUST LIMITED income £2.8m
• SALFORD COMMUNITY & VOLUNTARY SERVICES income £6.4m

Side by side with its peers

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