THE COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF SHROPSHIRE

Registered charity 1096779 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CCS, Community Resource, SHROPSHIRE RCC, Shropshire Rural Communities Charity

We develop and deliver practical solutions to rural problems that maintain the well-being of individuals and communities in Shropshire. We help prevent rural isolation and loneliness and enable access to economic and community activity. We support community and voluntary organisations to enable them to improve the quality of life for people in Shropshire and influence policy makers on rural issues

Objects

(I) TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE CEREMONIAL COUNTY OF SHROPSHIRE AND ITS IMMEDIATE SURROUNDING AREA BY ASSISTING THE WORK OF STATUTORY AUTHORITIES RELIEVING POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS, OR IN PURSUING ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES.(II) TO PROMOTE AND ORGANISE CO-OPERATION IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE SAID PURPOSES AND TO THAT END TO BERING TOGETHER REPRESENTATIVES OF THE AUTHORITIES AND ORGANISATIONS ENGAGED IN THE FURTHERANCE OF THE SAID PURPOSES WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: SHROPSHIRE

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Shropshire, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income rose to £1.39 million, a 72% increase on the previous year, while expenditure increased to £1.33 million. The charity closed with a net movement in funds of £70,605, resulting in total funds of £2.53 million and free reserves of £305,763. The trustees report that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by WR Partners. Discloses 4 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
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04652487

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Warren James — Chair (source)
• Bev Baxter — 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.

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.

• JAMES, Warren Austin William — director, appointed 03/05/2024on trustee list
• WAUGH, Amy Rowley — director, appointed 19/09/2023on trustee list
• PEARSON, Lindsay — director, appointed 11/01/2022on trustee list
• HENLEY, Rachel — director, appointed 14/09/2021on trustee list
• BROAD, Simon Bowden — director, appointed 04/03/2021on trustee list
• THORN, Mark Robert John — director, appointed 06/12/2017on trustee list
• COOPER, Nicola Jayne — director, appointed 10/07/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.8 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: 5.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amy Rowley Waugh
• Lindsay Pearson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Robert John Thorn · trustee of 2 other charities
• Nicola Jayne Cooper · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rachel Henley
• Simon Broad · trustee of 1 other charity
• Simon Glynn Siraj
• Warren Austin William James · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Shropshire · Telford & Wrekin

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 COUNCIL.

• CHESHIRE COMMUNITY COUNCIL income £1.3m
• SHROPSHIRE COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £56k
• SHROPSHIRE CRICKET BOARD LIMITED income £768k
• SHROPSHIRE RURAL SUPPORT income £37k
• SHROPSHIRE CLIMATE ACTION income £35k
• COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF LANCASHIRE income £738k

Side by side with its peers

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