THE FOUNDRY SHEFFIELD

Registered charity 1162688 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity provides facilities in Sheffield City Centre for a wide range of organisations and charities who support some of the most vulnerable in the city including asylum seekers and the homeless.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE BENEFITS OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD AND ELSEWHERE, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, AGE, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS AND INHABITANTS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND ADVANCE EDUCATION, AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION, AND TO RELIEVE UNEMPLOYMENT, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS.THE PROMOTION OF THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROVIDING LOW COST ACCOMMODATION AND FACILITIES IN CENTRAL SHEFFIELD FOR VOLUNTARY SECTOR ORGANISATIONS. THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR MEANS CHARITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS. CHARITIES 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 AUTHORITIES’PROVIDED THAT NONE OF THE OBJECTS NOR ANY ACTIVITY WITHIN THE OBJECTS SHALL BE UNDERTAKEN OTHERWISE THAN IN ACCORDANCE WITH OR IN FURTHERANCE OF THE PURPOSES OF THE METHODIST CHURCH CONTAINED IN SECTION 4 OF THE METHODIST CHURCH ACT 1976 AND/OR THE DOCTRINAL STANDARDS OF THE METHODIST CHURCH.

Area of benefit: SHEFFIELD

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sheffield, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with negative unrestricted reserves of £12,396, falling significantly below its stated policy target of £80,000. Per the trustees' report, this deficit was caused by a combination of a devastating flood, prolonged heating failures, and significant building works that led to a loss of customers and tenants. While the charity remains a going concern due to a long-term loan from the Sheffield Methodist Circuit, the trustees note that cash flow is an issue and the organization is operating well below its reserves policy.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cooper Healey Audit Services Ltd. 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.

• 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
• 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.

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 30/06/2023 (received 07/05/2024, 7 days after the 30/04/2024 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (66% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Kate Burnett · trustee of 2 other charities
• Alistair Johnson
• Andrew Crawford
• DAVID BURTON · trustee of 6 other charities
• Daryl Bishop
• Howard Hoyes
• Lung Pun Common Chan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Melissa Quinn
• Rev Jacqueline Wright
• Rev Jonathan Haigh · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Martyn Atkins
• Rev Romeo Regardo Pedro · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: Sheffield City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SHEFFIELD 1000-1 CHARITY.

• THE SHEFFIELD 1000-1 CHARITY income £64k
• CITY CHURCH SHEFFIELD income £424k
• THE SHACKLEFORD CENTRE income £29k
• SHEFFIELD TOWN TRUST income £420k
• ASSIST SHEFFIELD income £787k
• SHEFFIELD HOSPITALS CHARITY income £3.3m

Side by side with its peers

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