COVENTRY CHURCH (MUNICIPAL) CHARITIES

Registered charity 228486 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COVENTRY CHURCH (MUNICIPAL) CHARITIES AND OTHERS, COVENTRY CHURCH CHARITIES

Almshouses for the elderly

Objects

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Area of benefit: CITY OF COVENTRY

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Coventry, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves increased to £284,685, though the Trustees note these have generally been at a very low level and intend to rebuild funds. The charity reports a surplus for the year of £350,192 but highlights tight cashflow and increased voids impacting income from supported housing.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Dafferns Audit Limited. Discloses 2 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Homes England. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

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

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (73% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• MRS GINA RIGBYchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• DAVID EDWIN KERSHAW CBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• DR MICHAEL SPOKES · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr William Patrick Watson
• Elaine Cook · trustee of 1 other charity
• Joseph Clifford · trustee of 3 other charities
• Michael Trevelyan · trustee of 2 other charities
• Nicholas Williams · trustee of 1 other charity
• RICHARD DYOTT

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

Operates in: Coventry City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHURCH ESTATE OR CHURCH ALMSHOUSES.

• CHURCH ESTATE OR CHURCH ALMSHOUSES income £41k
• MRS GELLS ALMSHOUSE CHARITY income £32k
• THE HENRY COVENTRY ALMSHOUSES CHARITY income £276k
• ALMSHOUSE CHARITIES income £114k
• MERTON UNITED CHARITIES income £48k
• MARSHFIELD CONSOLIDATED CHARITIES income £56k

Side by side with its peers

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