MANOR DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LIMITED

Registered charity 1131906 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MDC

Manor Development Company (MDC) operates in the geographical area of the Manor Estate in Sheffield. The charity is a key organisation within an area of chronic disadvantage and works with the community to assist in the empowerment of local people to turn socio- economic visions into a sustainable reality.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity has unrestricted reserves of £3,491,746, which exceeds its stated policy target of £300,000–£400,000. However, the charity reports net current liabilities of £209,072, and the independent auditor has identified a material uncertainty regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern due to doubts over sufficient working capital.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by UHY Hacker Young. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: material uncertainty (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £130k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~113.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (51% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/12/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• RICHARD FOSTERchair
• CATHERINE MARY DEAN
• Carol Ann Jenkinson · trustee of 3 other charities
• Nicola Jowitt · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Sheffield City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MANOR AND CASTLE DEVELOPMENT TRUST LIMITED.

• MANOR AND CASTLE DEVELOPMENT TRUST LIMITED income £2.6m
• MANOR HOUSE DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £398k
• MANSFIELD WOODHOUSE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP income £116k
• MANCHESTER SETTLEMENT income £1.8m
• MANCHESTER CHARITABLE TRUST LTD income £154k
• THE MANOR TRUST BEDHAMPTON income £753k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.