BEDFORDSHIRE RURAL COMMUNITIES CHARITY

Registered charity 1061538 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRCC

BRCC exists to help people and communities in Bedfordshire to do more for themselves.Our main areas of work are:- Supporting Communities- Health & Wellbeing- Environment- Community Transport- Rural Development

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an overall net deficit of £201,735 for the year ended 31 March 2024, resulting in a General Fund deficit of £68,382. Per the trustees' report, this deficit places the General Fund below the minimum level set out in the Reserves Policy, and restoring it to above the minimum level has been identified as a priority. Despite the deficit, the trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Streets Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03327628

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.

• GOLDING, Jacqueline Anne — director, appointed 04/08/2026not on trustee list
• MARSH, Steve, Reverend — director, appointed 05/05/2026on trustee list
• POLHILL, Julian — director, appointed 17/02/2026on trustee list
• KIRBY, Elizabeth Rose — director, appointed 04/11/2025on trustee list
• KALSI, Joanne — director, appointed 15/04/2025on trustee list
• KHANDELWAL, Ashok — director, appointed 30/11/2023on trustee list
• CARRE, Joel — director, appointed 30/11/2023on trustee list
• KHOONER, Sukhi — director, appointed 21/11/2022on trustee list
• BARKER, Christopher — director, appointed 03/10/2019on trustee list
• GRAYSON, Paula — director, appointed 25/01/2005on trustee list
• ANDREWS, Clifford Robert — secretary, appointed 28/05/2025

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

6 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% 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: 1.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/11/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (18/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Janet Ridgechair
• Ashok Khandelwal · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher Barker
• Elizabeth Rose Kirby
• Jaqueline Golding
• Joanne Kalsi
• Joel Carre
• Julian Polhill
• PAULA GRAYSON
• Rev Steve Marsh
• Sukhi Khooner

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

Operates in: Bedford · Buckinghamshire · Cambridgeshire · Central Bedfordshire · Hertfordshire · Luton

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 RURAL COMMUNITY COUNCIL (LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND).

• RURAL COMMUNITY COUNCIL (LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND) income £802k
• FRIENDS FOR LIFE BEDFORDSHIRE income £113k
• BEDFORDSHIRE AND LUTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £5.3m
• WARWICKSHIRE RURAL COMMUNITY COUNCIL income £1.1m
• THE COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF SHROPSHIRE income £1.4m
• Home-Start Bedfordshire income £213k

Side by side with its peers

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