THE CARPENTER'S ARMS (MIDLANDS) TRUST

Registered charity 1147791 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CARPENTER'S ARMS, THE CARPENTER'S ARMS TRUST

The Carpenter's Arms is a Christian organisation that helps men who are challenged by homelessness who have drug and alcohol problems. The Charity also assists people on benefits with food parcels. The area of operation is Leicestershire.

Objects

1) TO HOUSE, SUPPORT, CARE AND TREAT PERSONS IN NEED WHO ARE CHALLENGED BY HOMELESSNESS AND SUFFERING FROM THE EFFECTS OF POVERTY, SICKNESS, DISABILITY, OLD AGE, ALCOHOLISM, DRUG ADDICTION, OFFENDING BEHAVIOUR OR ANY OTHER MENTAL OR PHYSICAL INFIRMITY WITHIN A CHRISTIAN CONTEXT.2) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL.

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds are in a deficit of £269,999, which is below the trustees' stated reserves policy target of £300,000. The charity reports total income of £1,837,606 against expenditure of £1,692,962, resulting in a net surplus for the period, though the overall fund balance remains negative due to prior years' deficits.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Baldwin Scofield Ltd. 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Richard Spence — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Scott Wheatley — Chief Operating Officer (source)
• Judith Spence — Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (83% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gerhard Schulz · trustee of 3 other charities
• JOAN MARGARET SMIDOWICZ
• JUDITH SPENCE
• SHEPHERD JAYA

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

Operates in: Leicestershire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CARPENTERS COMPANY CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE CARPENTERS COMPANY CHARITABLE TRUST income £2.0m
• ARMLEY HELPING HANDS income £307k
• The Carpenters' and Dockland Community Centre income £336k
• NORTON FOLGATE TRUST income £353k
• HANDCRAFTED PROJECTS income £2.3m
• THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF CARMEN GENERAL CHARITY income £222k

Side by side with its peers

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