TRELYA

Registered charity 1089634 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of activities for children and young people including those at risk of social exclusion. Activities include sports, arts, music, educational support and other opportunities. Provision of recreational and leisure time facilities in the interests of social welfare for those inhabitants of the area in necessitous circumstances.

Objects

TO ENHANCE, FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE UP TO 25 YEARS OLD, AND TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND RELIEVE POVERTY AMONG THOSE IN NEED IN THE UK, ESPECIALLY BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WEST CORNWALL INCLUDING THE ISLES OF SCILLY TO PROVIDE RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR THOSE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO ARE IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES

Area of benefit: YOUNG PEOPLE IN WEST CORNWALL.

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 · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cornwall, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £48,212 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income increasing significantly to £2,216,818 from £990,661 in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves increased to £367,623, which the trustees assessed as sufficient for current needs and equivalent to 4.2 months of average expenditure. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and has no disclosed pension deficits or trading subsidiaries.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by TC Group. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Trelya (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Crin Whelan — Executive Director (source)
• Cat Keene — Director of Operations (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).

• UK Government — “This project is funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.” (source page)

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (86% 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: 2.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/09/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Cornelius Olivier
• Dr BARBARA JANE VANN
• Gillian Gallagher
• Graham Richard Elliott Smith
• Joy Diana Meaden
• Lynda Margaret James
• Marc John Farmer
• Sara Davey

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

Operates in: Cornwall · Isles Of Scilly

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 HAMELIN TRUST.

• HAMELIN TRUST income £3.9m
• Crawley Community Action income £406k
• SILVER LEYS TRUST income £39k
• CRAWLEY YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTRE income £96k
• THE SPRINGFIELD PROJECT income £1.7m
• ACTIVITEENS income £144k

Side by side with its peers

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