THE COLEBRIDGE TRUST LTD

Registered charity 1155468 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COLEBRIDGE TRUST

Tackling inequalities relating to health, wellbeing, inclusion, poverty, employment and skills in Solihull and surrounding areas (Birmingham & Warwickshire).To promote the voluntary sector for the public benefit in Solihull by building the capacity of voluntary sector organisations and providing them with the necessary support, information and services.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY (”THE OBJECTS”) ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:A.THE PROMOTION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC OF URBAN REGENERATION IN AREAS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION IN SOLIHULL BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS:I. THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT:II. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, TRAINING OR RETRAINING, PARTICULARLY AMONG UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE, AND PROVIDING UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE WITH WORK EXPERIENCE:III. THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE OR BUSINESS ADVICE OR CONSULTANCY IN ORDER TO PROVIDE TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE IN CASES OF FINANCIAL OR OTHER CHARITABLE NEED THROUGH HELP: (I) IN SETTING UP THEIR OWN BUSINESS, OR (II) TO EXISTING BUSINESSES:IV. THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE OR THOSE WHO BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES:V. THE PROVISION OF PUBLIC HEALTH FACILITIES:VI. SUCH OTHER MEANS AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED SUBJECT TO THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES.B.TO PROMOTE THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN SOLIHULL BY BUILDING THE CAPACITY OF VOLUNTARY SECTOR ORGANISATIONS AND PROVIDING THEM WITH THE NECESSARY SUPPORT, INFORMATION AND SERVICES TO ENABLE THEM TO PURSUE OR CONTRIBUTE TO ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE.‘THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR’ MEANS CHARITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONSCHARITIES ARE ORGANISATIONS, WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES.VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS ARE 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 AUTHORITIESC.SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE

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 · Amateur Sport · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity has good reserves in excess of three months of operating costs, which the Chair believes will be utilised for difficult times ahead and investment needs. The Chief Executive notes that while the organisation has mitigated financial risk through tight overhead control, it faces ongoing risks from short-term funding and pressures on UK manufacturing.

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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 02/02/2026, 2 days after the 31/01/2026 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Chet Parmar — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Richard Clark — Chair of Trustees / 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (53% 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: 2.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Richard Clarkchair
• Andrew Potter
• Christine Grace
• Jennifer Timbrell
• June Mole
• Lisa Harrison
• Mandy Carless · trustee of 1 other charity
• Manisha Sharma
• Philip Harrison

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Solihull · Warwickshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SOUTH KILBURN TRUST.

• SOUTH KILBURN TRUST income £138k
• CITIZENS ADVICE SOLIHULL BOROUGH LTD income £265k
• TEIGNBRIDGE COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY SERVICES income £1.1m
• Boroughbridge Community Charity income £83k
• THE CORNWALL SUSTAINABLE BUILDING TRUST income £76k
• THE CHRISTOPHER ROWBOTHAM CHARITABLE TRUST income £29k

Side by side with its peers

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