ONE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LIMITED

Registered charity 1135258 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

One Community Foundation was established in May 2010 to generate financial support for local community activities across the borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire. Our aim is to build and manage a series of endowment funds, so that we can make a lasting contribution by delivering grants to local groups and the wider community.

Objects

1 FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO FURTHER SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY OF KIRKLEES AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME.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.THE COMPANY WILL NOT ASSIST ANIMAL OR ANIMAL WELFARE ORGANISATION, POLITICAL ACTIVITY, OR RELIGIOUS EVANGELISM

Area of benefit: KIRKLEES

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £237,514 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £4,161,314 to £3,923,800. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with unrestricted funds totaling £205,913.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BK Plus Audit Limited. 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (82% 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: 11.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• MRS Joanne Woodhouse Bellchair
• Andrew Raw
• Brendan Sykes
• IAN BRIERLEY · trustee of 3 other charities
• Jeremy Peter Garside · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jonathan Henry Thornton · trustee of 1 other charity
• MR ERIC FIRTH
• Qaisar Mahmood
• Robert Morse · trustee of 1 other charity
• VASANT PATEL · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Kirklees

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ONE COMMUNITY EASTLEIGH.

• ONE COMMUNITY EASTLEIGH income £952k
• ONE COMMUNITY GLOUCESTER income £59k
• ONE KNOWSLEY income £1.9m
• ONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £288k
• ONE CAN TRUST income £653k
• COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR WAKEFIELD income £192k

Side by side with its peers

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