NORTH SMETHWICK DEVELOPMENT TRUST

Registered charity 1035308 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NORTH SMETHWICK HOUSING DEVELOPMENT TRUST

Provides a range of services and activities either independently or with other local agencies to improve the lives of local families, adults, children and young people. Run time-bound projects including energy and environmental projects We run several small social enterprises providing employment for local people such as match day car parking, community cafe.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN NORTH SMETHWICK DISTRICT OF SANDWELL THROUGH THE PROVISION OF COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES AND FACILITIES AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY OF PERSONS IN HOUSING NEED.

Area of benefit: NORTH SMETHWICK, SANDWELL

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sandwell, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £5,703 for the year, resulting in total unrestricted and restricted reserves falling from £63,190 to £57,486. The trustees note that financial security is being addressed by developing community business to generate sustainable income, while also acknowledging the ongoing impact of the cost of living crisis and rising operational costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2021 (received 22/02/2022, 22 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02736636

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.

• WOOD, John Franklin — director, appointed 18/09/2026not on trustee list
• FARQUHARSON, Emily — director, appointed 25/02/2026on trustee list
• KAUR, Kuljit — director, appointed 25/02/2026on trustee list
• BURTON, Charmaine Sabrina — director, appointed 04/06/2025on trustee list
• MCFARLANE, Anthony — director, appointed 04/01/2016on trustee list
• HARRISON, Jennifer Anne — secretary, appointed 02/11/2017

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/12/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anthony McFarlanechair
• Charmaine Sabrina Burton
• Emily Farquharson
• John Franklin Wood DL
• Kuljit Kaur
• PARAMJIT RANDHAWA

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

Operates in: Sandwell

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WOODTHORPE DEVELOPMENT TRUST.

• WOODTHORPE DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £307k
• NORTHFIELD COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP - A COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST LIMITED income £1.4m
• SOUTHMEAD DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £4.3m
• Development Trust Doncaster income £199k
• THE MOSS SIDE AND HULME COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £356k
• SOUTH SEFTON DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £375k

Side by side with its peers

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