MARYVALE COMMUNITY PROJECT

Registered charity 1147691 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MCP

The Charity provides lunch clubs and activities for the elderly and adults with disabilities. It provides a telephone befriending service for the housebound and lonely. Its overall aim is to nurture social cohesion and community building regardless of religious affiliation or social status. Services are delivered at Maryvale Community Centre, Old Oscott Hill, Birmingham B44 9SR.

Objects

(1)TO FURTHER SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME IN PARTICULAR THOSE THAT FALL WITHIN THE DESCRIPTION OF CHARITABLE PURPOSES (SET OUT IN S. 3(1)(E) OF THE CHARITIES ACT 2011) BEING THE ADVANCEMENT OF CITIZENSHIP OR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT – CHARITABLE PURPOSES THAT FALL WITHIN THIS DESCRIPTION BEING:•THE PROMOTION OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP AND CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY; •THE PROMOTION OF URBAN AND RURAL REGENERATION; •THE PROMOTION OF VOLUNTEERING FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT WHERE TO DO SO FURTHERS CHARITABLE PURPOSES FALLING WITHIN THE DESCRIPTIONS OF PURPOSES SET OUT IN S. 3 OF THE CHARITIES ACT 2011; •THE PROMOTION OF THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT; •PROMOTING THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES AND THE EFFECTIVE USE OF CHARITABLE RESOURCES; •THE PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY CAPACITY BUILDING; AND BY •PROMOTING OR ADVANCING EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES OF CHARITIES CONCERNED WITH SOCIAL INVESTMENT. "THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR" MEANS CHARITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS.(A)CHARITIES ARE ORGANISATIONS, WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES.(B)VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS ARE TYPES OF INDEPENDENT ORGANISATIONS, WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR PURPOSES THAT ADD VALUE TO THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE, OR A SIGNIFICANT SECTION OF THE COMMUNITY, AND WHICH ARE NOT PERMITTED BY THEIR CONSTITUTION TO MAKE A PROFIT FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION. VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS DO NOT INCLUDE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OR OTHER STATUTORY AUTHORITIES.(2)THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, OLD AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE;IN EVERY CASE WITHIN THE KINGSTANDING, GREAT BARR AND PHEASEY ESTATE AREAS OF NORTH BIRMINGHAM (THE AREA OF BENEFIT) AND IN CARRYING OUT THESE OBJECTS THE CHARITY SHALL REMAIN INSPIRED AND GUIDED BY THE ETHOS AND VALUES OF ITS MISSION STATEMENT.

Area of benefit: KINGSTANDING, GREAT BARR AND PHEASEY ESTATE AREAS OF NORTH BIRMINGHAM

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net movement in funds of (14,348), reducing its unrestricted reserves from 15,178 to 830. The accounts state that cash funds were very low at the year-end, but operations continued due to resumed grant funding and support from a related party. The trustees remain confident in the charity's ability to continue operating for the foreseeable future.

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 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
• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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)

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07745594 · Financial health read from its filings

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• FAHEY, Dominic John — director, appointed 09/10/2021on trustee list
• WELCH, Mary Teresa Ann — director, appointed 14/01/2014on trustee list
• DWYER, Anthony Francis — director, appointed 18/08/2011not on trustee list
• O'CALLAGHAN, Barbara Ann — director, appointed 18/08/2011on trustee list
• FATHER HUDSON'S SOCIETY — corporate director, appointed 18/08/2011on trustee list
• DWYER, Tony — secretary, appointed 30/07/2021

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• BARBARA O'CALLAGHANchair
• Dominic Fahey
• FATHER HUDSON'S SOCIETY
• Father Hudson's Society
• Mary Beatrice Quinn
• Mary Teresa Ann Welch
• TONY DWYER

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Sandwell · Walsall

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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