WOODTHORPE DEVELOPMENT TRUST

Registered charity 1087340 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WOODTHORPE FORUM

To bring about the community led social, enviromental and economic regeneration of the local Woodthorpe area and other wider communities in need. Our services include childcare, activities for young people, adult education, adult social care, supporting local schools, and running specific projects that benefit the wider community.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF WOODTHORPE AND NEIGHBOURHOOD IN THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD BY SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION SHALL DECIDE

Area of benefit: WOODTHORPE AND NEIGHBOURHOOD IN THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £32,270 for the year ended 31 March 2025, increasing its unrestricted reserves to £46,841. The trustees have adopted a reserves policy of one month's running costs, which currently equates to approximately £22,900. The filing notes that rising business costs and unpredictable grant funding remain significant risks to the charity's financial stability.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• 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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/09/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Sandra Potestachair
• Gina Taylor
• Lee BELL
• PHILIP JACKSON

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

Operates in: Sheffield City

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TAFF BARGOED DEVELOPMENT TRUST LIMITED.

• TAFF BARGOED DEVELOPMENT TRUST LIMITED income £152k
• Stockport County Community Trust income £976k
• WEAVERTHORPE PRE-SCHOOL CENTRE income £240k
• EAST DURHAM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST LTD income £1.7m
• MANSFIELD WOODHOUSE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP income £116k
• NEW HORIZONS COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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