BEDFORD STREET COMMUNITY COMPANY LIMITED

Registered charity 1177026 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of support with benefits and welfare advice, digital inclusion, IT provision and support, community cafe, older persons lunch clubs and activities,community led housing projects.

Objects

1) TO FURTHER OR BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF RHYL AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID RESIDENTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE RESIDENTS.IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE OBJECTS BUT NOT OTHERWISE, THE TRUSTEES SHALL HAVE POWER:TO ESTABLISH OR SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY CENTRE AND TO MAINTAIN OR MANAGE OR CO-OPERATE WITH ANY STATUTORY AUTHORITY IN THE MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF SUCH A CENTRE FOR ACTIVITIES PROMOTED BY THE CHARITY IN FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS.2) TO PROVIDE TRANSPORT FACILITIES FOR THE RESIDENTS OF RHYL AND THE SURROUNDING AREA FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE SPECIAL NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BECAUSE THEY ARE ELDERLY, POOR OR DISABLED, PEOPLE WITH YOUNG CHILDREN OR THOSE LIVING IN ISOLATED AREAS WHERE THERE ARE NO ADEQUATE PUBLIC TRANSPORT FACILITIES.3) THE PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF POVERTY AND FINANCIAL HARDSHIP IN RHYL AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING EMERGENCY FOOD, ESSENTIAL TOILETRIES, AND OTHER HOUSEHOLD ITEMS TO INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES IN NEED AND/OR FOR DISTRIBUTION BY CHARITIES OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Denbighshire, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£215k
Latest spending
£177k
Registered
2018
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves stand at £21,962, which is below the stated policy target of three months' running costs. The charity relies heavily on restricted grant funding and notes that securing funding for broad-spectrum community support is becoming more difficult.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: The National Community Lottery
“We received £76,500 from The National Community Lottery as funding for project manager, benefits adviser and other core costs” — page 4
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £22k; policy: three months running costs)
“Free reserves stand at £21,962 which will be used for any new projects or any of our charitable purposes.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

  • Volunteers: 40
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

  • Volunteers: 30
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

  • Volunteers: 35
  • Government income: £9,500 — grants £9,500 (2); 4% of the £230,366 total gross income on the same return

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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: Denbighshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£215k£177k
31/03/2024£162k£178k
31/03/2023£230k£177k
31/03/2022£190k£163k
31/03/2021£184k£138k

Common questions

Is BEDFORD STREET COMMUNITY COMPANY LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that free reserves stand at £21,962, which is below the stated policy target of three months' running costs. The charity relies heavily on restricted grant funding and notes that securing funding for broad-spectrum community support is becoming more difficult. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds BEDFORD STREET COMMUNITY COMPANY LIMITED?

Funders whose own accounts filings name BEDFORD STREET COMMUNITY COMPANY LIMITED as a grant recipient include THE HEADLEY TRUST, THE FORTE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE HEADLEY TRUSTFY2024£30kFoodbanks.
THE HEADLEY TRUSTFY2023£10kFoodbank plus - Towards provision of help with food and other basic needs.
THE FORTE CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONFY2024£10k39% of the running costs to extend provision of a Community Centre addressing food insecurity in West Rhyl , Wales.
THE HEADLEY TRUSTFY2024£5kFoodbanks.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund28/10/2025£98kForyd Community Hub
Postcode Lottery28/06/2024£25kUnrestricted Funding
The National Lottery Community Fund28/05/2024£20kWALES COL - Money Box
The National Lottery Community Fund13/02/2023£10kWales COL - Foryd Food Hub
Postcode Lottery26/04/2022£24kStaff salary
The National Lottery Community Fund25/03/2020£216kUse Your Loaf
The National Lottery Community Fund06/09/2018£9kMoneyworx

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BEDFORD HOUSE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
BEDFORD STREET COMMUNITY COMPANY LIMITED£215k—0below—no doubt
BEDFORD HOUSE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION FY2025£295k—0unclear—no doubt
COMMUNITY, ADVICE, SUPPORT AND EDUCATION FY2026£60k—0unclear—no doubt
SCAITCLIFFE COMMUNITY CENTRE FY2025£108k—0unclear—no doubt
BRADFORD DISTRICT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FY2025£618k—0unclear—no doubt
BEDFORDSHIRE AND LUTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FY2025£5.3mOver £60,0001unclear5.3%no doubt

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