EMPOWERING PEOPLE INSPIRING COMMUNITIES LIMITED
Registered charity 1118644 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BENTILEE COMMUNITY HOUSING LIMITED
Empowering People Inspiring Communities Limited is a Registered Provider (RP) initially established in 1998 to receive a transfer of housing stock from Stoke City Council. It undertakes housing activities usually associated with RPs and various regeneration projects.
Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a total comprehensive income of £1,017,614 for the year ended 31 March 2025, an increase from £205,264 in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, the organisation maintains strong financial resilience with unrestricted reserves of £21,419,077 and fully compliant loan covenants, supported by a positive regulatory judgement.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Payments to trustees: Board of Trustees received emoluments totalling £33,229 (2024: £34,400).
“The Non- Executive Board Trustees received emoluments in the year to 31 March 2025 totalling £33,229 (2024 - £34,400).” — page 42
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: EPIC Regeneration Services Limited
“The Company owns 100% of the issued share capital of EPIC Regeneration Services Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales. This Company has aggregate capital and reserves of £1 and has been dormant since incorporation.” — page 45
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Beever and Struthers. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.
Inspection and regulatory ratings
Matched to this charity by name; verify provider identity on the regulator’s site.
- Regulator of Social Housing — Empowering People Inspiring Communities Limited: governance G1 viability V2 consumer C1 (2025-07-30 00:00:00)
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Tracey Johnson — Chief Executive (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)
498 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (493 freehold); recorded price paid £19.6m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.
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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Reserves (reported)
£29.8m
Reported reserves equal ~59.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (97% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
- Simon Wilsonchair
- Alun Bragg
- Amandeep Jhawar
- Christopher Alexander Elliott · trustee of 5 other charities
- DAVID NEWMARCH
- Daniel Robert Wyer
- Jemma Louise Richards
- Jonathan Moore · trustee of 1 other charity
- Margaret Dodwell
- Rachel Heather Challinor
- Robert Morton
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Staffordshire · Stoke-on-trent City
Income and spending
Common questions
Is EMPOWERING PEOPLE INSPIRING COMMUNITIES LIMITED financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a total comprehensive income of £1,017,614 for the year ended 31 March 2025, an increase from £205,264 in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, the organisation maintains strong financial resilience with unrestricted reserves of £21,419,077 and fully compliant loan covenants, supported by a positive regulatory judgement. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Beever and Struthers.
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