GLOUCESTERSHIRE RURAL COMMUNITY COUNCIL

Registered charity 1054282 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

GRCC is dedicated to enriching the lives of people living in rural Gloucestershire by supporting them through change and by enabling them to determine and develop their own communities

Objects

1) TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RURAL COMMUNITY IN THE COUNTY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND DISTRESS AND PHYSICAL AND MENTAL SICKNESS AND DISABILITY. 2) TO PROMOTE AND ORGANISE CO-OPERATION IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES AND TO THAT END TO BRING TOGETHER REPRESENTATIVES OF THE VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND STATUTORY AUTHORITIES ENGAGED IN THE FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: COUNTY OF 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 · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £1,551,634 significantly exceed the trustees' stated policy target of six months' operating costs plus employment liabilities, which was calculated at £247,663. The charity reported a net income of £56,563 for the year, supported by charitable activity income of £1,053,639 and voluntary income of £83,533. The independent auditor confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Griffiths Marshall. Discloses 4 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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)

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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 31/03/2023 (received 20/02/2024, 20 days after the 31/01/2024 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 03181755

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.

• COTTRELL, Alexandra — director, appointed 30/03/2026on trustee list
• MCKEOWN, Michael Sean — director, appointed 30/03/2026on trustee list
• LAYHE, Stephanie Mary — director, appointed 30/03/2026on trustee list
• LEE, Owen — director, appointed 21/05/2024on trustee list
• DREW, David Elliott, Dr — director, appointed 21/05/2024on trustee list
• SETHI, Jasneet Kaur — director, appointed 14/06/2023on trustee list
• LLOYD-SMITH, Robert Alexander — director, appointed 14/06/2023on trustee list
• GODWIN, Roger Arthur — director, appointed 25/01/2022on trustee list
• MCGAW, Duncan — director, appointed 31/07/2017on trustee list
• COATS, Charles — director, appointed 10/09/2014on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (84% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charles Coatschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alexandra Cottrell
• Dr David Elliott Drew
• Duncan McGaw · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jasneet Kaur Sethi
• Micheal Sean McKeown
• Owen Lee · trustee of 1 other charity
• ROGER GODWIN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert Alexander Lloyd-Smith
• Stephanie Mary Layhe

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 COUNTY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.

• COUNTY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £583k
• AGE CONCERN GLOUCESTERSHIRE income £998k
• GL COMMUNITIES income £623k
• CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND, GLOUCESTERSHIRE CIO income £85k
• THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE SOCIETY income £160k
• THE RURAL COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF ESSEX income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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