MILTON KEYNES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LIMITED

Registered charity 295107 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We are a local Independant grant making charity. We raise funds by obtaining donations from individuals and companies. Local charities and community groups apply for grants to support their charitable activities in Milton Keynes. Via our subsidiary company, MK Community Properties Ltd, we provide local voluntary and community organisations with accomodation at a subsidised rate.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY AND ALSO INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS IN THE BOROUGH OF MILTON KEYNES AND ELSEWHERE AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION THE PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY DISTRESS AND DISABILITY OR SICKNESS.

Area of benefit: BOROUGH OF MILTON KEYNES

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Milton Keynes, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £864,751, which is below its stated policy target of at least £1 million. The group generated a net gain before investment gains of £219,051 and maintains total endowment assets of £55,573,419. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Hillier Hopkins LLP. 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.

• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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)

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02032715
• Trading subsidiary: MK COMMUNITY PROPERTIES LIMITED Companies House 02650530

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — MK Community Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• GIBBS, Deborah Elizabeth — director, appointed 15/10/2025not on trustee list
• ROXBURGH, Timothy Mcronald — director, appointed 15/10/2025not on trustee list
• DOWNTON, Matthew James — director, appointed 17/04/2023on trustee list
• MCLEAN, Laura Erin Noonan — director, appointed 17/04/2023on trustee list
• MORRIS, Katy — director, appointed 17/04/2023on trustee list
• FORMAN, Richard John — director, appointed 19/08/2022on trustee list
• MEHDI, Sydea Sidra, Dr — director, appointed 19/08/2022on trustee list
• SINCLAIR, Jason Julian — director, appointed 19/11/2020on trustee list
• LWANGA, Precious Rudo — director, appointed 19/11/2020on trustee list
• O'REILLY, Sean David — director, appointed 16/05/2019on trustee list
• JONES, Shirley — director, appointed 22/11/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

51 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (47 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 44.3% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/04/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (30/08/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/09/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/12/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Deborah Gibbs
• Jason Sinclair
• Jay Virgo
• Katy Morris
• Matthew James Downton
• Precious Rudo Lwanga
• RICHARD FORMAN
• Sean David O'Reilly
• Shirley Jones · trustee of 1 other charity
• Syeda Sidra Mehdi
• Timothy Roxburgh

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire · Milton Keynes

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COMMUNITY ACTION: MK.

• COMMUNITY ACTION: MK income £841k
• KENT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £4.5m
• THE MIDCOUNTIES CO-OPERATIVE COMMUNITY FUND income £125k
• UK COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS income £11.3m
• MILTON KEYNES CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION LIMITED income £837k
• KENT RELIANCE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £339k

Side by side with its peers

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