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WORCESTERSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LIMITED

Registered charity 1102266 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Worcestershire Community Foundation is an independent, locally managed charitable trust which raises funds and distributes funding to local voluntary and community groups in the County of Worcestershire

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£379k
Latest spending
£344k
Registered
2004
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total reserves decreased to £1,837,645, with general unrestricted reserves standing at £235,696. The trustees consider this level of reserves to be maintained in line with their policy of holding between six to twelve months of expenditure. The organization reports no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: between six to twelve month’s expenditure (held: £236k)
“It is the policy of the Foundation that unrestricted funds which have not been designated for a specific use should be maintained at a level equivalent to between six to twelve month’s expenditure” — page 6
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Donations from trustees
“Donations are received from trustees to support the work of the Foundation. These are freely given.” — page 20
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Worcestershire Community Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2023)

Total income
£511k
Total spending
£496k
Cost of raising funds
£907
Reserves (reported)
£218k
Employees
1

Reported reserves equal ~5.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (93% 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Worcestershire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/09/2025£379k£344k
30/09/2024£227k£341k
30/09/2023£511k£496k
30/09/2022£280k£745k
30/09/2021£1.1m£706k

Common questions

Is WORCESTERSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total reserves decreased to £1,837,645, with general unrestricted reserves standing at £235,696. The trustees consider this level of reserves to be maintained in line with their policy of holding between six to twelve months of expenditure. The organization reports no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds WORCESTERSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LIMITED?

Funders whose own accounts filings name WORCESTERSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LIMITED as a grant recipient include THE BRANSFORD TRUST, THE MICHAEL MARSH CHARITABLE TRUST, GOWLING WLG (UK) CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE BRANSFORD TRUSTFY2025£10k
THE BRANSFORD TRUSTFY2023£5k
THE MICHAEL MARSH CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£3kGeneral Charitable Purposes
GOWLING WLG (UK) CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£1k
GOWLING WLG (UK) CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£500
GOWLING WLG (UK) CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£500
GOWLING WLG (UK) CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2022£500

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
WORCESTER MUNICIPAL CHARITIES (CIO)1£163k
THE AMATEURS TRUST1£115k
PRISM THE GIFT FUND1£70k
THE HOPMARKET CHARITY1£50k
THE SIMON & ELIZABETH BATEY CHARITABLE TRUST1£32k
Boodles Charitable Trust1£26k
THE WILFRED AND ELSIE ELKES CHARITY FUND1£24k
THE WO STREET CHARITABLE FOUNDATION1£20k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HEREFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
WORCESTERSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LIMITED£379k—0within—no doubt
HEREFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FY2025£949k—0unclear—no doubt
CHESHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LIMITED FY2024£2.3m£60,001 - £70,0001unclear—no doubt
SHROPSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FY2024£150k—0unclear—no doubt
WORCESTER COMMUNITY TRUST FY2025£1.8m—0unclear—no doubt
CITY OF WORCESTER GYMNASTICS FY2024£397k—0above—no doubt

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