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.

Objects

TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN A HERITAGE CENTRE IN THE SMETHWICK AREA OF THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF SANDWELL; TO HELP ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORY OF SMETHWICK, IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF PERMANENT AND TRAVELLING EXHIBITIONS AND LECTURES AND OTHER SUCH EDUCATIONAL EVENTS; ALSO TO FURTHER THE INTEREST IN THE HISTORY OF SMETHWICK BY MEANS OF RESEARCH PROJECTS, COLLECTING AND PRESERVING INFORMATION AND ARTEFACTS FOR SHARING WITH THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE.

Area of benefit: THE SMETHWICK AREA OF THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF SANDWELL

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net deficit of £26,433 for the year, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted reserves to £147,402. Despite the deficit, the trustees consider the financial position satisfactory and believe the charity has adequate resources to continue its activities for the foreseeable future.

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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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