WORCESTER COMMUNITY TRUST

Registered charity 1112342 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CAP360 WORCESTER LIMITED, COMMUNITIES AROUND THE PARK

WCT enables children, young people, families & communities to access a wide range of positive activities, opportunities & experiences through supporting families, promoting achievement & aspirations, offering early support & reaching out to those with fewest advantages.

Objects

(I) TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF WORCESTERSHIRE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA ('THE AREA OF BENEFIT') WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF AGE, SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE INHABITANTS AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, RELIEVE POVERTY AND SICKNESS AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT (II) TO ESTABLISH OR SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY CENTRE OR CENTRES AND TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE THE SAME, WHETHER ALONE OR IN CO-OPERATION WITH ANY LOCAL AUTHORITY OR OTHER PERSON OR BODY.

Area of benefit: WORCESTER CITY.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £130,733 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted reserves increasing to £731,287. The trustees maintain a reserves policy equivalent to a minimum of four months' running costs to safeguard against funding delays and rising operational pressures. Per the independent auditor's report, the financial statements give a true and fair view and no material uncertainties regarding going concern were identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by RD Accounting Limited. 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Worcester Community Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Bridget Brickley — Chair (source)
• Helen Davis — Chief Executive Officer (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

6 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 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 · instagram · linkedin

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (76% 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

• Bridget Lee Brickleychair
• Claire Louise Thompson
• Jasbinder Cartwright
• Nicholas Morris
• Philip Andrew Fowler
• RICHARD Alfred SOPER
• Samantha Kate Mccarthy
• Sharon Louise Tilki

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

Operates in: Worcestershire

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WAVERTREE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CENTRE.

• WAVERTREE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CENTRE income £312k
• THE TOWCESTER COMMUNITY CENTRE TRUST income £7k
• WORCESTER THEATRES CHARITABLE TRUST LTD income £2.6m
• WEST ITCHEN COMMUNITY TRUST LIMITED income £396k
• WALNEY COMMUNITY TRUST income £180k
• WORCESTER YMCA income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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