CHESHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LIMITED

Registered charity 1143711 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The main area of our charitable activities is the distribution of grants to not-for-profit organisations based in the county of Cheshire in the local community on behalf of donors and fund holders.

Objects

3 THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ("OBJECTS") ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:3.1 THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE COUNTY OF CHESHIRE AND ITS IMMEDIATE NEIGHBOURHOOD; AND3.2 OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE WHICH ARE, IN THE OPINION OF THE DIRECTORS, BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY WITH A PREFERENCE FOR THOSE IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT

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: Warrington, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £358,623, representing approximately nine months of core expenditure, which is above the stated policy minimum of six months. The charity reported a net expenditure of £778,353 for the year, largely driven by investment losses, but maintained a positive cash position. The trustees consider the financial position to be satisfactory and responsible given the operating environment.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Murray Smith LLP. Discloses 4 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (77% 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: 5.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (30/10/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (22/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/03/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/09/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Nicola Clare Owenchair
• Andrew Mark Pear DL
• David Wootton CBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Emily Sarah Collier
• Howard Platt
• Jake Ashley Ankers · trustee of 2 other charities
• Jeannie France-Hayhurst
• Katrina Kerr
• Mark Greaves DL FIOD
• Paul Brown
• Sean Humphreys
• Simon John Williams
• Terry Inns

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Cheshire West & Chester · Warrington

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• CHESHIRE COMMUNITY COUNCIL income £1.3m
• OXFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £2.1m
• CHELMSFORD COMMUNITY CHURCH income £89k
• COUNTY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £583k
• CHESHIRE CONNECT income £159k
• CHEYLESMORE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £455k

Side by side with its peers

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