BEDFORDSHIRE AND LUTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1086516 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BEDFORDSHIRE & LUTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

The Foundation makes grants to local community groups and charities.

Objects

THE OBJECTS ("THE OBJECTS") FOR WHICH THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED ARE: (1) THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE GEOGRAPHIC COUNTY OF BEDFORDSHIRE AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION THE PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS; (2) OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE WHICH ARE IN THE OPINION OF THE TRUSTEES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY INCLUDING THOSE IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: BEDFORDSHIRE

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Central Bedfordshire, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £577,679, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of six months of administrative expenditure (£300,000). The charity reported a profit for the year and confirmed it can meet liabilities as they fall due, with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HW Associates Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from more than £60,000 (FY2024) to Over £60,000 (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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04141953

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sue Hughes — Chair of Trustees (source)
• Karen Perkins — CEO (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Whitbread Plc. — “Whitbread Plc. Chairman’s Fund” (source page)
• London Luton Airport Community Trust Fund — “London Luton Airport Community Trust Fund” (source page)
• London Luton Airport Greener Future Fund — “London Luton Airport Greener Future Fund” (source page)
• SWEF Enterprise Fund — “SWEF Enterprise Fund” (source page)
• The Healthier, Wealthier and Happier Communities Fund — “The Healthier, Wealthier and Happier Communities Fund” (source page)
• Luton Citizens’ Fund — “Luton Citizens’ Fund” (source page)
• Luton Rising Youth Fund — “Luton Rising Youth Fund” (source page)
• Luton Innovation & Collaboration Fund — “Luton Innovation & Collaboration Fund” (source page)
• Community Trust Fund — “Community Trust Fund” (source page)

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.

• HUMBERSTONE, Wayne Antony — director, appointed 16/06/2025on trustee list
• THOMAS, Gareth John, Dr — director, appointed 16/06/2025on trustee list
• BARKER, Julian Toby — director, appointed 16/06/2025on trustee list
• COODIEN, Venesa — director, appointed 13/03/2025on trustee list
• AHMED, Junaid — director, appointed 13/03/2025on trustee list
• MACKENZIE, Louise — director, appointed 07/06/2024on trustee list
• WESTERN, James Peter — director, appointed 11/09/2023on trustee list
• COLLETT, Christopher David — director, appointed 11/09/2023on trustee list
• GOMEZ, Aimee Jane — director, appointed 11/09/2023on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Ian Harold — director, appointed 11/09/2023on trustee list
• HUGHES, Susan Jane — director, appointed 12/02/2022on trustee list

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 ~0.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter 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: 5.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Aimee Gomez
• Dr GARETH JOHN THOMAS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ian Taylor
• JULIAN BARKER · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Western
• Junaid Ahmed
• Louise Mary Mackenzie
• Susan Hughes
• Venesa Coodien
• Wayne Anthony Humberstone

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

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

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

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 CUMBRIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.

• CUMBRIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £11.5m
• BELBROUGHTON RECREATION CENTRE income £32k
• BEDFORD HOUSE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £295k
• BEDFORD BLUES FOUNDATION income £513k
• TAUNTON ROUND TABLE CHARITABLE TRUST FUND income £54k
• SHEFFIELD UNITED COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £2.5m

Side by side with its peers

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