SHIRLEY OLD PEOPLE'S WELFARE COMMITTEE LIMITED

Registered charity 1160863 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To benefit the Frail and Elderly of Shirley, Solihull

Objects

TO RELIEVE ELDERLY PEOPLE IN NEED BY REASON OF ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, SOCIAL EXCLUSION OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE BY THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF A CARE HOME

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved an unrestricted fund surplus of £47,872, increasing its total unrestricted reserves to £409,045. However, the trustees report that free-flowing unrestricted reserves of £158,158 are below the stated policy target range of £214,675 to £234,675. The trustees acknowledge the charity is not currently in a position to achieve its reserves policy but note that the surplus brings them closer to the target.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Locke Williams Associates LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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
• Volunteer management

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Joanne Clarke — Manager (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.8 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 (98% 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).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/11/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Paul Ronald Dyerchair
• Carol Davida McNidder
• EILEEN WARD
• Geoffrey Robert Ward
• Margaret Ann Moss
• Sheelagh Mary Dyer

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

Operates in: Solihull

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF SHIRLEY, CROYDON.

• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF SHIRLEY, CROYDON income £143k
• 1ST SHIRLEY SCOUT GROUP income £220k
• SHIRLEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £200k
• SHEFFCARE LIMITED income £17.4m
• SHREWSBURY OPPORTUNITY GROUP income £109k
• THE ABBEYFIELD GREAT MISSENDEN AND DISTRICT SOCIETY income £355k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.