HEART OF ENGLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1117345 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Manage funds on behalf of a range of donors who want to invest in their local communities, supporting hundreds of grassroots organisations every year to make their communities a better place to live, work and play. We aim to make a real difference at a local level across the areas we support.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total incoming resources were £13,559,348, resulting in an overall increase in funds of £1,385,156 to £28,034,360. The charity reports a healthy operating gain on unrestricted general funds of £511,909, driven largely by local authority contracts. The trustees confirm that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern 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 Dafferns Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Heart of England Community Foundation celebrates 30 years of changing lives theboar.org · 09/03/2025
• Heart of England Community Foundation: Supporting the community at a time of crisis civilsociety.co.uk · 08/06/2020
• Heart of England Community Foundation dinner - business-live.co.uk business-live.co.uk · 15/02/2018

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05999452

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.

• FORDE, John — director, appointed 03/12/2025on trustee list
• INNISS, Matthew Rawle — director, appointed 03/12/2025on trustee list
• BOARDMAN-WESTON, Daniel Geoffrey William — director, appointed 04/06/2025on trustee list
• PORT MBE, Richard David — director, appointed 05/10/2022not on trustee list
• FULLER, Alethea — director, appointed 10/06/2021on trustee list
• JENNISON, Jude Anne — director, appointed 07/12/2017on trustee list
• VINCENT, Michelle — director, appointed 21/03/2013on trustee list
• JEFFERSON, Charleene Theresa — secretary, appointed 01/10/2023

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% 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: 1.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/06/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (22/02/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (22/02/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jude Jennisonchair
• ALETHEA FULLER
• Daniel Geoffrey William Boardman-Weston
• John Forde · trustee of 1 other charity
• Matthew Rawle Inniss
• Michelle Vincent
• Richard Port MBE

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Coventry City · Dudley · Sandwell · Solihull · Walsall · Warwickshire · Wolverhampton

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ONE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LIMITED.

• ONE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LIMITED income £1.5m
• CHESHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LIMITED income £2.3m
• DORSET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £2.6m
• COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS FOR LANCASHIRE AND MERSEYSIDE income £4.4m
• Community Foundation for Staffordshire and Shropshire income £4.6m
• HAMPSHIRE AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £656k

Side by side with its peers

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