BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1155173 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q17509453 · Wikipedia · also known as BCF, THE BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

The Berkshire Community Foundation is committed to helping organisations and individualsmake a lasting impact in the local community and to raising funds to build a permanent sourceof funding for the small voluntary groups that tackle need at the grass roots of the localcommunity.

Objects

3.1 THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE ROYAL COUNTY OF BERKSHIRE AND ELSEWHERE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM,IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION,THE PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH,BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL,AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS;AND 3.2 OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES WHICH ARE IN THE OPINION OF THE TRUSTEES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY IN THE ROYAL COUNTY OF BERKSHIRE AND ELSEWHERE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.

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: Reading, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £146,860, which is below the charity's stated policy target of 2-3 months of operating costs (equivalent to 3.5 months). The charity reported a net decrease in funds of £58,150, driven by an unrealised investment loss of £592,731, although operational performance showed a surplus.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Fiander ETL. 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 17.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/11/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/06/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/09/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Stephen Howardchair
• Christian Martin
• Dr Rajvinder Arora MBBS, BSc · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jackie Henshaw
• Julie Elliott
• Lindsey Beard JP DL
• Margaret Haines MVO
• Nicholas Charles Burrows
• Paul Norris
• Shirley Bradbeer
• Simon Muir DL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sir Philip John May

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

Operates in: Bracknell Forest · Reading · Slough · West Berkshire · Windsor And Maidenhead · Wokingham

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 DERBYSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.

• DERBYSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £1.1m
• BUCKINGHAMSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £4.3m
• WORCESTERSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LIMITED income £379k
• CAMBRIDGESHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £4.3m
• COUNTY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £583k
• OXFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £2.1m

Side by side with its peers

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