Community Foundation for Staffordshire and Shropshire

Registered charity 1091628 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as STAFFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR STAFFORDSHIRE

Charity is a community foundation, aim is to create endowment type fund from which to generate future income to support local charities and community projects

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £227,612, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of £270,000 (equivalent to 9 months' running costs). The charity reported a net expenditure of £1,106,380 for the year, driven by significant grant distributions, while total income decreased from the prior year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Dains Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04220563

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.

• SCOTT-MONCRIEFF, Judy — director, appointed 02/06/2026on trustee list
• MCCOURT, Reena — director, appointed 02/06/2026on trustee list
• FEJFER, Katarzyna — director, appointed 27/11/2025on trustee list
• CHAKRABARTY, Mridula — director, appointed 27/11/2025on trustee list
• KANJILAL, Mahuya — director, appointed 27/11/2025on trustee list
• FIKEIS, Sherrel — director, appointed 30/04/2024on trustee list
• JONES, Antony Charles, Cllr — director, appointed 30/04/2024on trustee list
• BAGOT JEWITT, Charles James, Commander — director, appointed 17/03/2022not on trustee list
• DUROSE, Alan William — director, appointed 17/03/2022on trustee list
• BROUGH, Ashley Edward — director, appointed 10/12/2020on trustee list
• LEFROY, Jeremy John Elton — director, appointed 19/03/2020on trustee list
• ALMOND, Charlotte Anne — director, appointed 10/11/2016on trustee list
• PRICE, Simon John Mason — director, appointed 24/09/2013on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/01/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (28/04/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (22/01/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/08/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/06/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (26/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan William Durose
• Antony Jones
• Ashley Edward Brough
• CHARLES JAMES BAGOT JEWITT · trustee of 1 other charity
• Charlotte Anne Almond
• Jeremy Lefroy · trustee of 13 other charities
• Judy Scott-Moncrieff
• Katarzyna Fejfer
• Mahuya Kanjilal
• Mridula Chakrabarty
• Reena McCourt
• Sherrel Fikeis · trustee of 1 other charity
• Simon John Mason Price

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

Operates in: Shropshire · Staffordshire · Stoke-on-trent City · Telford & Wrekin

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 BEDFORDSHIRE AND LUTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.

• BEDFORDSHIRE AND LUTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £5.3m
• MW (HO) FOUNDATION income £207k
• THE STUART HALBERT FOUNDATION income £210k
• CHESHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LIMITED income £2.3m
• NHANCED COMMUNITIES income £182k
• SUFFOLK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £6.8m

Side by side with its peers

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