ROCHDALE BOROUGHWIDE CULTURAL TRUST
Registered charity 1118610 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Your Trust Rochdale
Provision of Sport, Leisure, Health, Wellbeing and Cultural Services
Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the group reported an unrestricted surplus of £1,038,383 prior to pension adjustments, with total unrestricted funds carried forward at £3,806,385. The trustees consider the charity to be in a healthy position and have prepared the financial statements on a going concern basis, citing a contracted relationship with Rochdale Borough Council until 2032. Reserves are managed against a stated policy target of £1.8m - £2.5m, with undesignated reserves of £357,000 remaining after designations.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Accounts audited by Mitchell Charlesworth (Audit) Limited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Your Trust (matched by registered charity number).
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- David Gelsthorpe — Chair of the Board of Trustees (source)
Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.
Property (HM Land Registry)
7 registered titles 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.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£61k
Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (70% 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: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).
- Councillor Sameena Zaheer
- David Gelsthorpe
- Gillian Bishop
- Joanne Ali
- Justin Axon
- Keith Maddock
- Martin Cresswell
- Paul O'Neill
- Priscilla Louise Baynes
- William Purser
- Zoe Staniczenko
- Zulfiqar Ali
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Bury · Oldham · Rochdale
Income and spending
Common questions
Is ROCHDALE BOROUGHWIDE CULTURAL TRUST financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the group reported an unrestricted surplus of £1,038,383 prior to pension adjustments, with total unrestricted funds carried forward at £3,806,385. The trustees consider the charity to be in a healthy position and have prepared the financial statements on a going concern basis, citing a contracted relationship with Rochdale Borough Council until 2032. Reserves are managed against a stated policy target of £1.8m - £2.5m, with undesignated reserves of £357,000 remaining after designations. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Mitchell Charlesworth (Audit) Limited.
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