CHESHIRE COMMUNITY COUNCIL

Registered charity 1074676 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHESHIRE COMMUNITY ACTION

Supporting volunteers who run community assetsFunding advice to community groupsSupporting neighbourhood planningGroup development with community groupsDeveloping community led housing projectsHealth and social care services Community transport

Objects

TO PROMOTE ALL OR ANY PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE COUNTY OF CHESHIRE WHICH NOW OR HEREAFTER MAY BE DEEMED BY LAW TO BE CHARITABLE, TO ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR THE INHABITANTS OF THE COUNTY OF CHESHIRE, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS, TO IMPROVE THE SKILL OF COUNTRY CRAFTSMEN IN CHESHIRETO PROMOTE AND ORGANISE CO-OPERATION IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE SAID PURPOSES, AND TO THAT END TO BRING TOGETHER REPRESENTATIVES OF THE AUTHORITIES, AND ORGANISATIONS AND COMMUNITIES ENGAGED IN THE FURTHERANCE OF THE SAID PURPOSES WITHIN THE ADMINISTRATIVE COUNTY OF CHESHIRE

Area of benefit: COUNTY OF CHESHIRE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cheshire West and Chester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £588,929, with unrestricted reserves at £554,836. The charity reports a net income of £134,898 for the year and holds sufficient cash and deposits to meet current liabilities. The trustees and auditors confirm the organization is a going concern 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 Murray Smith LLP. 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
• 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

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 03555199 · Financial health read from its filings

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mark Reading — Chief Executive (source)
• John Heselwood — Deputy Chief Executive (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.

• TURNER, Peter Robert — director, appointed 02/09/2025on trustee list
• AMESBURY, Alison — director, appointed 04/05/2020on trustee list
• WEAVER, Jacqueline — director, appointed 20/02/2009on trustee list
• FELIX, David Rhys, The Revd — director, appointed 27/09/2001on trustee list
• HESELWOOD, John — secretary, appointed 01/06/2007

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev DAVID RHYS FELIXchair
• Alison Amesbury
• JACQUELINE WEAVER
• Peter Turner

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Cheshire West & Chester · Halton · Warrington

Income and spending

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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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHESHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LIMITED.

• CHESHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LIMITED income £2.3m
• CHABAD COMMUNITY CARE income £64k
• THE COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF SHROPSHIRE income £1.4m
• BOTCHERBY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £225k
• CHESHIRE CARERS CENTRE income £694k
• CHESHIRE CONNECT income £159k

Side by side with its peers

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