CAMBRIDGESHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
Registered charity 1103314 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register
The Cambridgeshire Community Foundation awards grants to local charitable causes. Individuals, families, local companies and public bodies make this possible by supporting charitable funds held by CCF.
Causes: Education/training · General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that general reserves of £581,913 are below the stated policy target of nine months' operational costs (£621,190 anticipated expenditure). The charity reported a net loss of £200,978 for the year, driven by a significant loss on investments, though it successfully exceeded its grant-making targets.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £582k; policy: nine months of unrestricted expenditure)
“General Reserves as at 31 March 2025 are £581,913 (2023-24: £404,064) with anticipated expenditure in 2025-26 of £621,190.” — page 18
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Price Bailey LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Cambridgeshire Community Foundation (matched by registered charity number).
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Stephen Catling — Chair of Trustees (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.
- SLATER, Jessica — director, appointed 05/11/2025on trustee list
- GAZELEY, Neil Fredrick — director, appointed 15/10/2025on trustee list
- MCCUNN, Carol Lesley — director, appointed 15/10/2025on trustee list
- DAVIS, Annie Elizabeth — director, appointed 15/10/2025on trustee list
- STUBBS, Victoria Margaret — director, appointed 09/12/2024on trustee list
- GEORGE, Neil Michael — director, appointed 12/11/2024on trustee list
- FOREMAN, Rebecca Shoshanna — director, appointed 11/11/2024on trustee list
- CROMPTON, Jennifer — director, appointed 23/10/2024on trustee list
- SCHAAFSMA, Alexandra Catharina — director, appointed 23/10/2024on trustee list
- WOLEJKO, Agata Maria — director, appointed 01/11/2023on trustee list
- MANKTELOW, Colin David Robert — director, appointed 01/11/2023on trustee list
- SPERRYN, Simon George — director, appointed 01/11/2023on trustee list
- LEWIS, Paul Robert — director, appointed 28/04/2021on trustee list
- GARNHAM, Sara Elizabeth — director, appointed 28/04/2021on trustee list
- JELLEY, Jonathan — director, appointed 21/04/2021not on trustee list
- CATLING, Stephen John — director, appointed 21/10/2020on trustee list
Official officers record.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£189k
Reported reserves equal ~3.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (08/10/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (05/05/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (04/03/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (21/04/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Agata Maria Wolejko
- Alexandra Catharina Schaafsma
- Annie Elizabeth Davis
- Carol Lesley McCunn
- Colin David Robert Manktelow
- Jennifer Crompton
- Jessica Slater
- Jonathan Jelley MBE JP
- Neil Fredrick Gazeley
- Neil Michael George
- Paul Robert Lewis
- Rebecca Shoshanna Foreman · trustee of 1 other charity
- Sara Elizabeth Garnham
- Simon George Sperryn
- Stephen Catling
- Victoria Stubbs
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Peterborough City
Income and spending
Common questions
Is CAMBRIDGESHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that general reserves of £581,913 are below the stated policy target of nine months' operational costs (£621,190 anticipated expenditure). The charity reported a net loss of £200,978 for the year, driven by a significant loss on investments, though it successfully exceeded its grant-making targets. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Price Bailey LLP.
Who funds CAMBRIDGESHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?
Funders whose own accounts filings name CAMBRIDGESHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION as a grant recipient include PRISM THE GIFT FUND, THE PENCHANT FOUNDATION, Evelyn Partners Charitable Trust, IRWIN MITCHELL CHARITIES FOUNDATION.
Known funders
Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.
Government & lottery funding
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