HEELEY CITY FARM

Registered charity 1111482 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Heeley City Farm identifies, confronts and addresses the problems of poverty, inequality, prejudice and lack of opportunity in our inner city community by supporting and promoting community regeneration and self help within environmentally friendly and self-sustaining systems, using the background of a mini-farm, community gardens and related resources.

Objects

(1) TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF HEELEY AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD THEREOF (HEREINAFTERCALLED "THE AREA OF BENEFIT") WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX OR RACE, OR POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHEROPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND OR VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND INHABITANTS IN ACOMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FORRECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE FORTHE SAID INHABITANTS, AND PARTICULARLY OF THOSE WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIRYOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES;(2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE SAID INHABITANTS, AND PARTICULARLY YOUNG MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ATLARGE, IN AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, HOME-CRAFTS, COUNTRY-LIFE AND RELATED SUBJECTS AND IN THEPRINCIPLES OF SELF-DISCIPLINE AND GOOD CITIZENSHIP THROUGH THEIR LEISURE-TIME ACTIVITIES SO THAT THEYDEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES AND GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS ANDMEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE ARE IMPROVED;(3) TO PROMOTE AMONG THE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT HUMANITY AND MORALITY BY EDUCATING THEMIN CARE AND CONSIDERATION OF ALL ANIMALS, PARTICULARLY ANIMALS IN NEED OF CARE AND PROTECTION AND FORTHESE PURPOSES TO CARE FOR AND EXHIBIT ANIMALS IN COMMON AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC USE SO THAT THEPUBLIC, AND PARTICULARLY THE YOUNGER MEMBERS THEREOF, WILL LEARN A GREATER AWARENESS OF ANDAPPRECIATION FOR SUCH ANIMALS;(4) TO PROVIDE EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIRYOUTH, AGE INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, RESIDENT IN THESAID AREA OF BENEFIT, SO AS TO PREPARE THEM FOR ANY TRADE, OCCUPATION OR SERVICE AND HEREBY ADVANCETHEM IN LIFE OR ENABLE THEM TO EARN THEIR OWN LIVELIHOOD.

Area of benefit: HEELEY AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Sheffield, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £124,629 are below the trustees' stated policy target of £250,000. The charity reported a net income surplus of £43,964 for the period, with total funds increasing to £592,899. The auditors confirmed that the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Xeinadin. Discloses 5 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 10/03/2026, 38 days after the 31/01/2026 due date); year ending 31/12/2021 (received 01/02/2023, 93 days after the 31/10/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Heeley City Farm (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £122k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (52% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anne Victoria Hicks
• Carolyn Anne Spray
• Emily Angharad Baldwin
• Hilary Clare Reed
• Kathryn Suzanne Hogben
• Katy Elizabeth Stepanian
• Sarah Eleanor Jordan
• Theresa Ann Luff

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

Operates in: Barnsley · City Of Wakefield · Doncaster · Rotherham · Sheffield City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Heeley Trust.

• Heeley Trust income £2.1m
• HACKNEY CITY FARM LIMITED income £507k
• STEPNEY CITY FARM income £395k
• WELLGATE COMMUNITY FARM income £228k
• SPITALFIELDS FARM ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £526k
• GREEN CITY ACTION income £107k

Side by side with its peers

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