DERBYSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1039485 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DCF, Foundation Derbyshire

Derbyshire Community Foundation (operating as Foundation Derbyshire) is building an endowment fund that provides vital grant funding to voluntary and community groups, in order to tackle disadvantage and enhance the quality of life in Derbyshire. Foundation Derbyshire also distributes grants across Derbyshire on behalf of other funders and organisations.

Objects

FOR THE SUPPORT OR PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION (INCLUDING TRAINING FOR EMPLOYMENT OR WORK), THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION OR ANY OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR ELSEWHERE WHICH ARE IN THE OPINION OF THE TRUSTEES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY WITH A PREFERENCE FOR THOSE IN DERBYSHIRE

Area of benefit: COUNTY OF DERBYSHIRE

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: Amber Valley, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £324,130, which is above the stated policy target of £77,527. The charity reported a net loss of £179,715 for the year, primarily driven by an unrealised investment loss of £106,671. The trustees confirm that sufficient reserves and cash exist to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BHP LLP. 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
• 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 02893759

What the charity says about itself (2024/25)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Rachael Grime — Chief Executive (source)
• Oliver Stephenson — Chair (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.

• BIRDS, Christopher — director, appointed 10/11/2025on trustee list
• BUTLER, Anthony John — director, appointed 10/11/2025not on trustee list
• MCDERMOTT, Michael Christopher — director, appointed 10/11/2025on trustee list
• MOSELEY, Maisy Florence Mouse — director, appointed 10/11/2025on trustee list
• PALMER, George Richard Charles — director, appointed 10/11/2025on trustee list
• REINDL, Hayley — director, appointed 10/11/2025on trustee list
• SPEED, William Edward John — director, appointed 10/11/2025on trustee list
• PUGH, Kathryn Elizabeth — director, appointed 08/10/2023on trustee list
• GORDON, Stephen — director, appointed 08/11/2021on trustee list
• RAJU, Gurmail — director, appointed 10/05/2021on trustee list
• GERARD-PEARSE, Jane Louise — director, appointed 03/08/2020on trustee list
• COCHRANE, Andrew — director, appointed 12/02/2018on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, Alison Haswell — director, appointed 12/02/2018on trustee list
• HODGSON, Alfred Richard Nicholas — director, appointed 02/02/2015not on trustee list
• STEPHENSON, Oliver George — director, appointed 12/11/2014on trustee list
• KERR, William Walter Raleigh — director, appointed 12/11/2014on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £153k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (22/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/02/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/02/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/02/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/02/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Haswell Williams
• Andrew Cochrane · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anthony John Butler OBE
• Christopher Birds · trustee of 1 other charity
• George Palmer
• Gurmail Raju
• Hayley Reindl
• JANE LOUISE GERARD-PEARSE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jeff Whittingham
• Kathryn Elizabeth Pugh
• MARK JOHN TITTERTON · trustee of 5 other charities
• Maisy Florence Mouse Moseley
• Nick Hodgson
• Stephen Gordon
• William Edward John Speed

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

Operates in: Derby City · Derbyshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DERBYSHIRE VOLUNTARY ACTION.

• DERBYSHIRE VOLUNTARY ACTION income £691k
• BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £2.1m
• DERBYSHIRE DALES COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £404k
• BEDFORDSHIRE AND LUTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £5.3m
• DERBYSHIRE CRICKET FOUNDATION LIMITED income £1.2m
• CAMBRIDGESHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £4.3m

Side by side with its peers

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