NOTTINGHAMSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1069538 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SHERWOOD COALFIELD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

Nottinghamshire Community Foundation is an independent charity, set up to administer local charitable giving. Our unique approach to philanthropy allows individuals and businesses to support their own specific local interests and causes and in doing so invest in the future of their community. We have given over 25 million in grants to our communities over the past 15 years

Objects

A. THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE COUNTY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE AND IN PARTICULAR, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL, AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS. B. OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES WHICH ARE IN THE OPINION OF THE TRUSTEES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY IN THE COUNTY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.

Area of benefit: COUNTY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Mansfield, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £179,285 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £3,099,312 to £2,920,027. The trustees confirm that free reserves are held within a target range of a minimum of six months of operational costs, and the auditors reported no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Clayton & Brewill. Discloses 5 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
• 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
• 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 — Nottinghamshire Community Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/05/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/06/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/05/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/05/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/05/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/05/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Simon Patrick Tippingchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• Alexandra Peace-Gadsby · trustee of 3 other charities
• Heather Ruth Parker · trustee of 1 other charity
• KEVIN HYLAND · trustee of 1 other charity
• LADY DIANA MEALE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lynn Betts · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Goldby · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nadeem Raza
• Robert Moyle
• Stuart Ross

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

Operates in: Nottinghamshire

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 NORTHAMPTONSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.

• NORTHAMPTONSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £1.7m
• HEREFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £949k
• Community Foundation for Staffordshire and Shropshire income £4.6m
• WORCESTERSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LIMITED income £379k
• NOTTINGHAM MUNICIPAL CHARITIES income £331k
• BUCKINGHAMSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £4.3m

Side by side with its peers

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