COMMUNITY FURNITURE STORE (SELBY) LIMITED

Registered charity 1114619 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our Charity has three main aims. We primarily assist people in need, chiefly through the provision of donated household goods and new furniture and white goods at affordable prices. We also offer training and work experience placements and employment. We protect the environment by collecting items that would otherwise go to waste.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£279k
Latest spending
£263k
Registered
2006
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £15,614 for the year, increasing unrestricted reserves to £29,474. However, the trustees report that free reserves of £26,156 are significantly below their stated policy target of £65,760. The charity remains solvent with positive net current assets of £34,834 and no material uncertainties affecting its going concern status.

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: £26k; policy: three to six months of budgeted overhead expenditure)
“The financial statements show that free reserves are currently £26,156 which is £39,604 below this.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Amount owed by Community Furniture Store (Selby) Ltd to Community Furniture Store (York) Ltd.
“Creditors include this amount of £1,011 which was still owed to the York store at the year-end” — page 18
“Debtors include this amount of £1,052 (2024: £1,052) which was still owed from the Ryedale store at the year end.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Amount owed by Community Furniture Store (Ryedale) Ltd to Community Furniture Store (Selby) Ltd.
“Creditors include this amount of £1,011 which was still owed to the York store at the year-end” — page 18
“Debtors include this amount of £1,052 (2024: £1,052) which was still owed from the Ryedale store at the year end.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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

Corporate structure

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.

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: North Yorkshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£279k£263k
31/03/2024£238k£249k
31/03/2023£192k£200k
31/03/2022£190k£170k
31/03/2021£230k£245k

Common questions

Is COMMUNITY FURNITURE STORE (SELBY) LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £15,614 for the year, increasing unrestricted reserves to £29,474. However, the trustees report that free reserves of £26,156 are significantly below their stated policy target of £65,760. The charity remains solvent with positive net current assets of £34,834 and no material uncertainties affecting its going concern status. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds COMMUNITY FURNITURE STORE (SELBY) LIMITED?

Funders whose own accounts filings name COMMUNITY FURNITURE STORE (SELBY) LIMITED as a grant recipient include TWO RIDINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, THE DULVERTON TRUST.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
TWO RIDINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONFY2022£10kProgramme: Heart of Yorkshire Selby Fund
TWO RIDINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONFY2025£9kNo Poverty
TWO RIDINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONFY2024£5kReduced Inequalities / Gender Equality
THE DULVERTON TRUSTFY2024£5kTowards an Operations Manager post.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund30/10/2025£20kSelby Community Bike Project
The National Lottery Community Fund25/02/2010£9kMove to New Premises

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COMMUNITY FURNITURE STORE (YORK) LTD.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
COMMUNITY FURNITURE STORE (SELBY) LIMITED£279k—0below—no doubt
COMMUNITY FURNITURE STORE (YORK) LTD FY2025£687k—0below—no doubt
Bolton Community Furniture Store Limited FY2025£371k—0unclear—no doubt
FURNITURE RESOURCE CENTRE LIMITED FY2025£21.7m——unclear—no doubt
THE NEWBURY COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE LIMITED FY2025£2.1m——unclear—no doubt
LEEDS AND MOORTOWN FURNITURE STORE CIO FY2025£182k—0above—no doubt

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