HARBORNE AND SMETHWICK CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1177527 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

1. The provision of safe and secure sheltered accommodation for people aged 60 years and over in Smethwick and Harborne who wish to continue to live independently;2. The provision of financial support to persons in conditions of hardship or need in Smethwick and Harborne.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net deficit of £43,633 for the year, though underlying positions remain positive when exceptional spend is removed. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds £954,501 in cash and total liquid assets of £7,020,935, which exceeds its stated reserves policy target of six months' operating expenditure (£1,080,146) and twelve months' maintenance expenditure (£221,806).

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from more than £80,000 (FY2024) to more than £60,000 (FY2025).

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Steven Simpson — Chief Executive (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); recorded price paid £245k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~41.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (59% 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: 10.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• David John Jeffreychair
• BUDDHI CHETIYAWARDANA
• Cllr. Ragih Muflihi
• FRANCIS GEORGE WAYT
• GEOFFREY HEWITT
• George Adrian Brooke Taylor
• NIGEL ROHAN THOMPSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Patricia Leadbeter
• RACHEL SILBER
• VICTOR PAUL SILVESTER · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Sandwell

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE HARBORNE PARISH LANDS CHARITY.

• THE HARBORNE PARISH LANDS CHARITY income £2.0m
• The Hwb Torfaen income £526k
• SMETHWICK ASRA LIMITED income £1.4m
• HARROW CARERS income £2.1m
• THOMAS BROMWICH TRUST income £224k
• THE GLOUCESTER CHARITIES TRUST income £6.2m

Side by side with its peers

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