WHITLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1165275 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WCDA

Community Development activities including community cafe,

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£252k
Latest spending
£196k
Registered
2016
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £219,951, resulting in total funds of £251,512. The charity generated a net income of £58,061 and held cash of £250,371, with no current liabilities reported. The independent examiner confirmed that no matters came to their attention requiring further understanding of the accounts.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: unclear (held: £220k)
“The majority of the funding for WCDA previously came from Local Trust. WCDA produced a plan and budget each year in order to draw down these funds.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Reading

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/07/2025£252k£196k
31/07/2024£232k£222k
31/07/2023£251k£192k
31/07/2022£312k£79k
31/07/2021£186k£166k

Common questions

Is WHITLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £219,951, resulting in total funds of £251,512. The charity generated a net income of £58,061 and held cash of £250,371, with no current liabilities reported. The independent examiner confirmed that no matters came to their attention requiring further understanding of the accounts. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds WHITLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION?

Funders whose own accounts filings name WHITLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION as a grant recipient include READING FAMILY CHURCH, LOCAL TRUST, BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
READING FAMILY CHURCHFY2022£24kGrants for the relief of poverty
LOCAL TRUSTFY2023£16kBig Local area: Thurcroft
BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONFY2023£5k

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund24/04/2025£499kWhitley Community Development Association
The National Lottery Community Fund24/06/2022£10kHoliday Hunger
The National Lottery Community Fund28/02/2020£6kClueseum.

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 WHITLEIGH COMMUNITY TRUST.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
WHITLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION£252k—0unclear—no doubt
WHITLEIGH COMMUNITY TRUST FY2025£247k—0unclear—no doubt
WHITELEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION FY2025£103k—0unclear—noted
THE CIRENCESTER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST LTD. FY2025£182k—0unclear—no doubt
WHEATLEY HILL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION FY2025£336k—0unclear—noted
LINWOOD COMMUNITY CO-OPERATIVE LTD FY2025£243k—0above—noted

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