THE CHARITY SERVICE LIMITED

Registered charity 1011293 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Trust administration, grant making and support for CSR.

Objects

TO BENEFIT ANY CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS OR CHARITABLE PURPOSES BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE

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: General Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total net assets decreased to £5,855,901 from £6,370,341 in the prior year, driven by a net expenditure of £514,442 against total income of £1,277,440. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £17,101, which the trustees consider adequate as it falls within their policy parameters of 9 to 12 months of budgeted unrestricted expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Ashby Berry Coulsons Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Eleanor Wotherspoon — Chair of Trustees (source)
• Rachel Tomlins — Head of Philanthropy (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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (86% 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: 1.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/06/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Ernest Newns
• Eleanor Wotherspoon
• Jane Kiely
• Karen Webster
• Kate Thurman
• Kathryn Ann Graham
• Matthew Stephen Ralph
• Mehran Mokri
• Pippa Smith
• Robert Nieri

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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 THE CITY CHARITY TRUST.

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Side by side with its peers

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