DEVON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1057923 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

DCF is privileged to be working alongside people who are motivated by wanting to make a difference across Devon.We use our knowledge of local needs and the voluntary sector to manage the distribution of funds to achieve sustainable outcomes, awarding financial and other support on behalf of our partners and donors.In this way we address disadvantage and achieve inspiring change in our communities.

Objects

THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED FOR THE OBJECTS EXPRESSED IN THE MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION OR ANY OTHER FOR THE CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE COUNTY OF DEVON AND, AT THE TRUSTEES DISCRETION, OUTSIDE THE COUNTY OF DEVON

Area of benefit: COUNTY OF DEVON OR OUTSIDE DEVON AT THE TRUSTEES DISCRETION

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £375,366, with £250,000 designated to cover six months of costs. The charity reported a net expenditure for the year, resulting in a decrease in total net assets, though the trustees remain confident in the organization's ability to continue in perpetuity due to secure endowment income and healthy cash flow projections.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PKF Francis Clark. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (71% 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: 6.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/04/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/12/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anne Gunther · trustee of 2 other charities
• Caroline Rudolph
• Commodore John Keith Moores
• Jessica Pilkington
• Kelly Spry-Phare
• Nicholas James
• Robert David Williams
• Rowan Truscott · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Devon · Plymouth City · Torbay

Income and spending

Common questions

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 C.A.B. DEVON.

• C.A.B. DEVON income £844k
• NORTHCOTT DEVON FOUNDATION income £222k
• INVOLVE - VOLUNTARY ACTION IN MID DEVON income £186k
• DEVON VOLUNTARY ACTION income £55k
• REFUGEE SUPPORT (DEVON) LTD income £282k
• DERBYSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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