COMMUNITY HEART PRODUCTIONS
Community Heart Productions is an innovative, community organisation that uses activities as a vehicle to address social issues and exclusion. The organisation seeks to work with socially excluded young people and adults to help them explore the issues that they face each day through the arts, environment, volunteering and youth work.
Objects
1. TO ALLEVIATE SOCIAL EXCLUSION AND PROMOTE CITIZENSHIP AND SOCIAL INCLUSION IN COMMUNITIES THAT FACE POVERTY, HARDSHIP, DISADVANTAGE OR SOCIAL ISOLATION THROUGH INVOLVEMENT WITH COMMUNITY ARTS, HERITAGE, ENVIRONMENTAL WORK, CONSERVATION, VOLUNTEERING, YOUTH WORK, TRAINING, THEATRE AND FILM.2. TO PROMOTE ENGAGEMENT WITH COMMUNITY ARTS AND ENCOURAGE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES TO EXPLORE SOCIAL ISSUES THROUGH CREATIVE, INNOVATIVE AND ARTISTIC LEARNING.
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £25,719.08 for the year ending 31 March 2025, with total income of £93,394.00 against expenditure of £67,674.92. Net assets increased to £37,835.70, representing a healthy financial position with no disclosed liabilities or deficits.
What the accounts disclose
Policies the charity declares
- 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
- Paying staff
- Risk management
- Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
- 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)
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025
- Volunteers: 15
- Government income: £5,000 — grants £5,000 (1); 5% of the £93,394 total gross income on the same return
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024
- Volunteers: 12
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023
- Volunteers: 20
Trustees
- SIAN PHILLIPSchair
- GENERYS ROBERTS
- RUTH HOWELLS
- SURYIAH EVANS
Income and spending
| Financial year end | Income | Spending |
|---|---|---|
| 31/03/2025 | £93k | £68k |
| 31/03/2024 | £85k | £106k |
| 31/03/2023 | £99k | £102k |
| 31/03/2022 | £63k | £80k |
| 31/03/2021 | £97k | £43k |
Common questions
Is COMMUNITY HEART PRODUCTIONS financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £25,719.08 for the year ending 31 March 2025, with total income of £93,394.00 against expenditure of £67,674.92. Net assets increased to £37,835.70, representing a healthy financial position with no disclosed liabilities or deficits. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Phil Lovell Associates LTD T/A Mags Bookkeeping.
Who funds COMMUNITY HEART PRODUCTIONS?
Funders whose own accounts filings name COMMUNITY HEART PRODUCTIONS as a grant recipient include THE BAND TRUST, THE THOMAS HOWELL'S EDUCATION FUND FOR NORTH WALES, IMAGINE FOUNDATION, SANDRA CHARITABLE TRUST, CLA CHARITABLE TRUST.
Known funders
| Funder | Year | Amount | Purpose (as stated by the funder) |
|---|---|---|---|
| THE BAND TRUST | FY2024 | Unverified read£20k | Disadvantaged |
| THE BAND TRUST | FY2023 | £15k | Disadvantaged |
| THE THOMAS HOWELL'S EDUCATION FUND FOR NORTH WALES | FY2025 | £5k | Support for pupils in disadvantaged communities |
| IMAGINE FOUNDATION | FY2023 | £5k | Supporting Disadvantaged Young People |
| SANDRA CHARITABLE TRUST | FY2023 | £4k | |
| CLA CHARITABLE TRUST | FY2021 | £4k | |
| THE HOBSON CHARITY LIMITED | FY2023 | £3k | Community |
| THE CHARLES LEWIS FOUNDATION | FY2023 | £2k | Allotment Project - 1 x 4 day programme for 12 participants to help them gain skills in how to start growing their own food at the community garden or in their |
| SANDRA CHARITABLE TRUST | FY2024 | £2k | Grant paid or payable |
| THE NINEVEH CHARITABLE TRUST | FY2022 | £2k | |
| THE FINNIS SCOTT FOUNDATION | FY2022 | £2k | |
| THE FORRESTER FAMILY TRUST | FY2026 | amount not stated | Smaller Grants |
Government & lottery funding
| Funder | Date | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| The National Lottery Community Fund | 30/04/2026 | £17k | Bagillt Life Skills |
| The National Lottery Community Fund | 30/07/2025 | £180k | Nature Link |
| The National Lottery Community Fund | 24/02/2025 | £16k | COL Wales - Bagillt Kids Club |
| The National Lottery Community Fund | 07/07/2023 | £10k | Young Leaders |
| The National Lottery Community Fund | 29/09/2022 | £138k | Growing Together |
| The National Lottery Heritage Fund | 03/05/2022 | £9k | "Bagillt Community Heritage Orchard" |
| The National Lottery Community Fund | 07/10/2021 | £10k | Growing Together |
| The National Lottery Community Fund | 30/09/2020 | £10k | Woodland Guardians |
| The National Lottery Community Fund | 22/08/2019 | £100k | Plastic Free Dee |
| The National Lottery Community Fund | 29/05/2018 | £10k | Plastic Free Dee |
| The National Lottery Community Fund | 22/03/2016 | £10k | Anti-Social |
Funders of similar charities
| Funder | Similar charities funded | Amount to them |
|---|---|---|
| THE NISBET TRUST | 1 | £580k |
| THE FOOTBALL FOUNDATION | 1 | £525k |
| THE PRUDENCE TRUST | 1 | £289k |
| GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' FOUNDATION | 1 | £254k |
| JOHN JAMES BRISTOL FOUNDATION | 1 | £190k |
| UNITED ST SAVIOUR'S CHARITY | 1 | £187k |
| SANTANDER UK FOUNDATION LIMITED | 1 | £185k |
| THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH MUSIC | 1 | £179k |
Charities like this
- COMMUNITY HEART (LONDON)
- THE CREDITON HEART PROJECT
- COMMUNITY ACTION DERBY LTD
- COMMUNITY SOUTHWARK
- CREATIVE YOUTH NETWORK
- THE HEART OF HEADCORN
Side by side with its peers
| Charity | Income | Top pay band | Staff >£60k | Reserves vs policy | Fundraising cost | Going concern |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| COMMUNITY HEART PRODUCTIONS | £93k | — | 0 | unclear | — | no doubt |
| COMMUNITY HEART (LONDON) | £160k | — | 0 | below | — | no doubt |
| THE CREDITON HEART PROJECT | £29k | — | 0 | unclear | — | no doubt |
| COMMUNITY ACTION DERBY LTD | £3.1m | — | 0 | unclear | — | no doubt |
| COMMUNITY SOUTHWARK | £1.4m | — | — | below | — | no doubt |
| CREATIVE YOUTH NETWORK | £3.1m | — | — | below | — | no doubt |