SALTBOX
Registered charity 1121832 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register
The Saltbox: supports, encourages & promotes the work of churches & individual Christians; provides a voice for the faith sector to inform & influence service delivery; delivers services which support vulnerable people; identifies potential partnerships with statutory, voluntary and community organisations to bring about cohesion & transformation; provides an information service for connectivity
Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Religious Activities · 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 surplus of £129,502 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted reserves of £3,273,786. The trustees confirm that resources are adequate to meet future cash needs and that the charity is prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: three months of unrestricted expenditure (held: £3.3m)
“it is the Trustees' policy to hold reserves of approximately 3 months' expenditure. This equates to approximately £818,446” — page 11
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Trustee expenses
“Other related party transactions include employee benefits for key management personnei and trustee expenses for travel costs incurred by G Bond of £284.” — page 12
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Sumer Auditco Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Saltbox (matched by registered charity number).
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Lloyd Cooke — Chief Executive Officer (source)
- Joanne Speed — Finance Director (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.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Reported reserves equal ~13.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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).
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Staffordshire · Stoke-on-trent City
Income and spending
Common questions
Is SALTBOX financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £129,502 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted reserves of £3,273,786. The trustees confirm that resources are adequate to meet future cash needs and that the charity is prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Sumer Auditco Limited.
Who funds SALTBOX?
Funders whose own accounts filings name SALTBOX as a grant recipient include SANTANDER UK FOUNDATION LIMITED, THE 29TH MAY 1961 CHARITY, HINCHLEY CHARITABLE TRUST, Community Foundation for Staffordshire and Shropshire, Fuel Bank Foundation.
Known funders
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