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.

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

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.

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
BEDFORDSHIRE AND LUTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FY2025£5.3mOver £60,0001unclear5.3%no doubt
STOCKWELL PARK ESTATE COMMUNITY TRUST LTD FY2025£363k—0above—no doubt
BODMIN ROAD CHURCH FY2026£198k—0above—no doubt
BEDE HOUSE ASSOCIATION FY2025£1.6m£60,001 - £70,0001above—no doubt

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