Caring for Communities and People

Registered charity 1043143 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CARING FOR COMMUNITIES AND PEOPLE LTD, CCP, CHELTENHAM COMMUNITY PROJECTS LIMITED, COUNTY COMMUNITY PROJECTS, THE RATCLIFFE TRUST

To provide assistance for socially deprived young people, particularly those aged from 16 to 25 years; to provide accommodation for homeless persons; to provide for those in financial need; and to provide care; support and resettlement advice to those in need or at risk

Objects

TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE FOR PEOPLE IN NEED PARTICULARLY THOSE AGED FROM 16 TO 25 YEARS WHO HAVE PHYSICAL OR MENTAL DISABILITIES; TO PROVIDE ACCOMMODATION FOR HOMELESS PERSONS; TO PROVIDE FOR THOSE ON FINANCIAL NEED, TO PROVIDE CARE AND SUPPORT AND RESETTLEMENT ADVICE TO THOSE IN NEED OR AT RISK

Area of benefit: GLOUCESTERSHIRE

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 · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cheltenham, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased by 7% to £12.98 million, while total expenditure was £12.43 million, resulting in a net surplus for the year. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £2,232,758, which the trustees consider adequate to cover four months of core running costs. The organization maintains a balanced portfolio of assets and liabilities, with significant long-term loans secured against property assets.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BK Plus Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission; Financial Conduct Authority. 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
• Investing charity funds 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03002869 · Financial health read from its filings
• Trading subsidiary: CCP INNOVATIONS LIMITED Companies House 05279375
• Trading subsidiary: CCP HOMES LTD Companies House 11734150
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 3002869

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Caring for Communities and People (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Cordell Ray — Chief Executive (source)
• Michael Ratcliffe — Chair (source)
• Gareth Edwards — Deputy Chief Executive (source)
• Max Larcombe — Chief Operating Officer (source)
• Nigel McPeake — Business Development Director (source)
• Daniel Chun — Director of Social Value and Engagement (source)
• Amanda McPeake — Finance Director (source)
• Gillian Williams — Director of People Services (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.

• PRITCHARD, Rebecca — director, appointed 30/05/2024on trustee list
• STEVENS, Darren Mark — director, appointed 01/09/2021on trustee list
• LEA, Alexander Mark — director, appointed 27/02/2019on trustee list
• MORGAN, Karen Jane — director, appointed 27/02/2019not on trustee list
• CZAPSKI, Tadeusz — director, appointed 25/02/2015on trustee list
• SALTER, Ian John James — director, appointed 25/02/2015on trustee list
• RATCLIFFE, Michael Richardson — director, appointed 19/12/1994on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Property (HM Land Registry)

19 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (16 freehold); recorded price paid £4.6m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Caring For Communities and People — Deregistered, 1 registered location.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~2.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 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 (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MICHAEL RICHARDSON RATCLIFFEchair
• Alexander Lea
• Darren Mark Stevens · trustee of 1 other charity
• IAN JAMES SALTER
• Karen Jane Morgan OBE, DL · trustee of 3 other charities
• Rebecca Pritchard
• Tadeusz Czapski

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

Operates in: Dorset · Gloucestershire · Herefordshire · South Gloucestershire · Wiltshire · Worcestershire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE.

• FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE income £1.5m
• ACTIVITEENS income £144k
• CARLISLE KEY income £374k
• CHARITIES ADMINISTERED BY THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF FOUNDERS income £99k
• COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE income £654k
• CARE FOR THE CARERS income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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