WESTON PARK TRUST

Registered charity 1112685 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Weston Park was the first municipal park in Sheffield and is one of the most significant historic parks and is very popular with local residents and visitors to the city. Heritage Lottery has enabled the full restoration of the park to take place. There is an active friends of group who work closely with Parks and Countryside Officers to monitor and improve the site.

Objects

1. TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF SHEFFIELD AND THE SURROUNDING AREA THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS;2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, TO PROMOTE AND TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE ARTS, IN PARTICULAR, BY THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF A MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY.

Area of benefit: SHEFFIELD

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 · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds of £25,452,752 are entirely tied up in fixed assets, with unrestricted reserves effectively at zero as the charity relies on Sheffield City Council to fund the deficit between income and expenditure. The trustees report no material uncertainties regarding going concern, noting that budgeted income and expenditure are sufficient to continue operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• SHEFFIELD CITY COUNCIL · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: 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 WESTON PARK FOUNDATION.

• WESTON PARK FOUNDATION income £3.3m
• ENDCLIFFE PARK income £219k
• FIRTH PARK income £287k
• HILLSBOROUGH PARK income £687k
• NORFOLK PARK income £344k
• WEST HAM PARK income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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