COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR WAKEFIELD

Registered charity 1121884 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Community Foundation for Wakefield District is a grant making and endowment building charity. The Objects for which the charity is established are:- The Promotion of any charitable purposes for the benefit of the community in the Wakefield Metropolitan District area. Our Vision is to 'Inspire Local Giving that transforms lives for the better'.

Objects

1) THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE WAKEFIELD METROPOLITAN DISTRICT AREA AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION THE PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS;2) OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE WHICH ARE IN THE OPINION OF THE TRUSTEES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY INCLUDING THOSE IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: THE WAKEFIELD METROPOLITAN DISTRICT AREA

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves totalled £39,584, which is above the trustees' stated minimum policy target of £35,000. The charity reported a net expenditure of £38,408 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £625,295 to £586,887.

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 5 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 04/02/2023, 4 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Community Foundation Wakefield District (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/04/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anna Tabitha Dilkush Arulampalam-Tanna
• Cheryl Kidd
• DARREN BYFORD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jenna Fan
• Jonathan Scott
• Marie Catherine Szczepanski
• Natalie Faye Glover
• Natalie Faye Glover
• RICHARD HODGSON

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

Operates in: City Of Wakefield

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION IN WALES.

• THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION IN WALES income £3.2m
• WAKEFIELD DIOCESAN FAMILY AND SOCIAL WELFARE COUNCIL income £25k
• Prosper Wakefield District Ltd income £722k
• WAKEFIELD AND DISTRICT SOCIETY FOR DEAF PEOPLE income £209k
• THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR WILTSHIRE & SWINDON income £3.1m
• WAKEFIELD DISTRICT SIGHT AID income £152k

Side by side with its peers

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