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.

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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 reports a strong financial position with total net assets of £10.4 million and sufficient cash 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.

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.

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 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (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

• OLIVER STEPHENSONchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• 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
• Kathryn Elizabeth Pugh
• Maisy Florence Mouse Moseley
• Michael McDermott
• Nick Hodgson
• Stephen Gordon
• William Edward John Speed
• William Walter Raleigh Kerr · trustee of 4 other charities

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

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HEREFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.

• HEREFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £949k
• SOUTH YORKSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LIMITED income £2.4m
• NOTTINGHAMSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £815k
• CUMBRIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £11.5m
• DERBYSHIRE VOLUNTARY ACTION income £691k
• DERBYSHIRE DALES COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £404k

Side by side with its peers

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