THE BRELMS TRUST CIO

Registered charity 1153372 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charitable Incorporated Organisation offers grants to a wide variety of charities working in the local community. Funding is given exclusively to charities based in Yorkshire and directly benefitting only Yorkshire communities. Priority is given to charities working at the heart of communities to tackle disadvantage and to provide sustainable benefit to the community.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO ADVANCE THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN YORKSHIRE: 3.1 THE ALLEVIATION OF POVERTY;3.2 THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF HEALTH, AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY AMONGST GROUPS IN THE COMMUNITY WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND OTHER DISADVANTAGE;3.3 THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP MEET, THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY;3.4 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, ARTS, CULTURE AND AMATEUR SPORT BY THE SUPPORT OF WIDER PARTICIPATION IN COMMUNITY INITIATIVES;3.5 THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT;3.6 SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DEEM APPROPRIATE FROM TIME TO TIME.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free unrestricted reserves stood at £100,580, a significant decrease from the previous year's £257,464. The charity relies on its endowment fund, which had a balance of £2,480,214, to cover anticipated expenditure and future grant liabilities. The trustees consider the current level of reserves sufficient to cover anticipated expenditure in the initial months of the year ahead.

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 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 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/11/2024)

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.3% of total income.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/08/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MARY HELEN CORNISHchair
• Alan Wallace
• Carol Ideson Bowden
• Charlotte Stone
• Jillian C Malcomson
• Stephen Edward Stroud
• Susan Maughan Brown

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

Operates in: Barnsley · Bradford City · Calderdale · City Of Wakefield · Doncaster · Kirklees · Leeds City · North Yorkshire · Rotherham · Sheffield City

Income and spending

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