WITTON LODGE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
Registered charity 1039005 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register
Witton Lodge Community Association owns and manages over 200 homes for social and market rent, including a 40-apartment Independent Living Scheme. Working with the local community and partners, the Association supports local people with jobs and skills, a range of advice services, health and wellbeing initiatives and environmental projects, to help people live healthier lives.
Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity generated a consolidated operating surplus of £452,849 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £3,996,839 against total expenditure of £3,543,990. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds stood at £9,612,349, and the trustees confirmed adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future on a going concern basis.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Largest income source: General Housing and Sycamore Court (44% of income)
“General Housing and Sycamore Court 1,764,724” — page 14
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: six months expenditure (held: £9.6m)
“The Trustees have set a policy to hold in general funds an amount which will cover 6 months expenditure.” — page 47
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Rent charged to trustee board members
“Some Board Members hold tenancy agreements with the Association on normal terms and cannot use their position to their advantage. The total of rent charged to the Tenant Board members was £7,316 (2024: £6,785).” — page 47
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: WLCA Enterprises Limited
“The Charity has two subsidiary companies, WLCA Enterprises Limited, which is a Non-Charitable Company limited by shares.” — page 8
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by J W Hinks LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Linda Hines — Chair (source)
- Sophie Allison — Deputy Chair (source)
- Afzal Hussain — Chief 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.
Property (HM Land Registry)
19 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (7 freehold); recorded price paid £1.0m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Reported reserves equal ~5.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
- LINDA SUSAN HINESchair
- Andrew Winmill
- Anthony Robert Mendez
- Carla Louise Ross
- Cllr Jilly Bermingham
- Jane Lindsey Jennings
- MICHAEL DAVIS
- PAUL MICHAEL TOMLINSON
- SOPHIE ALLISON
- Simon Paul Harris
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Birmingham City
Income and spending
Common questions
Is WITTON LODGE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated a consolidated operating surplus of £452,849 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £3,996,839 against total expenditure of £3,543,990. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds stood at £9,612,349, and the trustees confirmed adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future on a going concern basis. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by J W Hinks LLP.
Who funds WITTON LODGE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION?
Funders whose own accounts filings name WITTON LODGE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION as a grant recipient include THE BARROW CADBURY TRUST, THE THOMPSON FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST.
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