ALWAYS COMMUNITY

Registered charity 1189909 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AC

Community Development

Objects

TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, IN NOTTINGHAM IN BY: (A) THE PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION AND THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE PRUDENT USE OF RESOURCES;(B) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE IN ITS SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED DIVERSE COMMUNITIES;(C) THE PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE MEANS OF ACHIEVING ECONOMIC GROWTH AND REGENERATION.SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MEANS “DEVELOPMENT WHICH MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE PRESENT WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE ABILITY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS TO MEET THEIR OWN NEEDS."

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 · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · Get email alerts

Latest income

£55k

Latest spending

£55k

Registered

2020

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ceased operations on 31 December 2025, with remaining assets transferred to another charity. The filing reports a significant net payment deficit for the period and notes that unrestricted reserves were insufficient to meet the charity's own policy target due to restricted funding.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Postcode Places Trust (67% of income)

“Postcode Places Trust - 12300 12300” — page 9

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £154)

“Always Community has a policy on reserves, however, since it started it has been difficult to comply with this as most of the grants we have received were restricted or were linked to deliver specific projects, making almost impossible to have enough funds for reserves.” — page 4

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Going concern: accounts NOT prepared on a going-concern basis (closing, merging or winding up)

“The charity ceased operations on 31/12/2025. In accordance with the charity's governing document the remaining funds and assets will be transferred to the Refugee Roots, charity number 1184098, following the settlement of all outstanding liabilities.” — page 10

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Pension scheme deficit: £257

“Creditors - pension (257)” — page 8

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 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
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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Volunteers: 3

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/06/2024

Volunteers: 5

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/06/2023

Volunteers: 8

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

Register events

Transferred assets to another charity (22/09/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Operates in: Nottingham City · Nottinghamshire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£55k	£55k
30/06/2024	£57k	£49k
30/06/2023	£37k	£50k
30/06/2022	£49k	£26k
30/06/2021	£13k	£96

Common questions

Is ALWAYS COMMUNITY financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity ceased operations on 31 December 2025, with remaining assets transferred to another charity. The filing reports a significant net payment deficit for the period and notes that unrestricted reserves were insufficient to meet the charity's own policy target due to restricted funding. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds ALWAYS COMMUNITY?

Funders whose own accounts filings name ALWAYS COMMUNITY as a grant recipient include THE JONES 1986 CHARITABLE TRUST, THE THOMAS FARR CHARITY.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE JONES 1986 CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£10k	Relief of Poverty
THE THOMAS FARR CHARITY	FY2025	£5k	Donations made during the year
THE THOMAS FARR CHARITY	FY2024	£3k

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
Postcode Lottery	29/07/2024	£12k	Unrestricted Funding
The National Lottery Community Fund	24/08/2023	£47k	Cohesive Communities
The National Lottery Community Fund	28/07/2022	£10k	Connected Communities
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	29/09/2021	£55k	"The Windrush Decision"
The National Lottery Community Fund	13/08/2021	£3k	Connecting Communities
The National Lottery Community Fund	04/06/2021	£10k	Connected communities

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE EVAN CORNISH FOUNDATION	1	£15k
MERCURY PHOENIX TRUST	1	£8k

Charities like this

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

ABBOTSWOOD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £106k
FAMILY COMMUNITY CHURCH income £73k
WORD OF FAITH MISSION income £57k
SWALWELL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION CIO income £36k
GREAT PARK COMMUNITY CENTRE ASSOCIATION income £274k
THEATRE FOR A CHANGE LIMITED income £162k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
ALWAYS COMMUNITY	£55k	—	below	—	not going concern
ABBOTSWOOD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION FY2025	£106k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
FAMILY COMMUNITY CHURCH FY2025	£73k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
WORD OF FAITH MISSION FY2025	£57k	£18,052	unclear	—	no doubt
SWALWELL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION CIO FY2025	£36k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
GREAT PARK COMMUNITY CENTRE ASSOCIATION FY2025	£274k	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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