SMETHWICK HERITAGE CENTRE TRUST

Registered charity 1117707 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our aim is to collect, store, archive and display objects and material connected with Smethwick. This is done by means of education and training in the arts and culture, the environment and conservation and heritage. These activities involve children and young people, the elderly and the general public, Research is also undertaken and sponsored.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£96k

Latest spending

£61k

Registered

2007

Accounts read

FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £173,835, reflecting a net surplus of £35,032 for the year. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue its activities for the foreseeable future and consider its financial position to be satisfactory.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: sufficient funds to cover operational commitments and maintain financial stability (held: £174k)

“The trustees continue to monitor reserves against the charity's policy of holding sufficient funds to cover operational commitments and maintain financial stability.”

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

Heritage Lottery Community Fund — “Thanks to the financial support of the Heritage Lottery Community Fund we now have a fabulous kitchen from which we can offer hot dinners an…” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title 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.

Register events

Received assets from another charity (21/08/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Elizabeth McLachlan
GEOFF CARPENTER
MARY CHRISTINE BODFISH · trustee of 1 other charity
Narinder Singh Rai
Patricia Kathleen AllCOCK
Robert Michael Baldwin

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

Operates in: Sandwell

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2024	£96k	£61k
31/12/2023	£61k	£63k
31/12/2022	£44k	£56k
31/12/2021	£70k	£51k
31/12/2020	£45k	£48k

Common questions

Is SMETHWICK HERITAGE CENTRE TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £173,835, reflecting a net surplus of £35,032 for the year. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue its activities for the foreseeable future and consider its financial position to be satisfactory. Its FY2024 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	26/09/2019	£10k	"1940: Smethwick's home front"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	25/04/2016	£10k	"Where memories remain (Smethwick's WW1 memorials now and then with expanded information)"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	20/01/2014	£10k	"From the Factories to the Front-line"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	18/07/2007	£50k	"The Smethwick Heritage Centre Audience Development Project"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	26/09/2006	£9k	"A Project To Purchase Equipment And Organise Regular Meetings To Carry Out Local History Research Focussing On The Cultural Change In Smethw"
The National Lottery Community Fund	22/09/2006	£9k	Local History
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	28/01/2005	£735	"A Project To Commemorate The Events Leading To The End Of Ww2 With The Provision Of An Exhibition For The Benefit Of This Community Based In"
The National Lottery Community Fund	26/01/2005	£5k	Exhibition
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	27/11/2003	£5k	"A Project To Make A Book About The History Of The Mitchells And Butlers Brewery, Which Was Based In Cape Hill, Smethwick And Closed Down In"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	20/03/2003	£275k	"Establishment of Smethwick Heritage Centre"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	21/01/2002	£4k	"A project to provide this Sandwell Heritage group with new office equipment in order to create and provide illustrated talks on the history"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	25/10/1999	£5k	"A project to provide production costs of a video promoting the history and area of Smethwick The grant will pay a contribution towards the p"