GRAVES PARK

Registered charity 510841 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Graves Park is classified as a City Park and a major visitor attraction with bowling greens, tennis courts, pitch and putt golf, cricket, football and a popular animal farm.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY IS THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF A PARK ANDRECREATION GROUND FOR USE BY THE PUBLIC WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIRCONDITIONS OF LIFE.

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

Causes: Amateur Sport · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · Recreation · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased slightly to £2,504,635, with unrestricted reserves remaining minimal at £1,779. The charity relies heavily on Sheffield City Council to fund the variance between its charitable expenditure and income, noting that annual revenue expenditure is generally greater than income.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (67% 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: 2.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• SHEFFIELD CITY COUNCIL · trustee of 13 other charities

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

Operates in: Sheffield City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NORFOLK PARK.

• NORFOLK PARK income £344k
• ENDCLIFFE PARK income £219k
• HIGH HAZELS PARK SHEFFIELD income £187k
• HILLSBOROUGH PARK income £687k
• WESTON PARK TRUST income £142k
• GRAVESEND CRICKET, LAWN TENNIS AND BOWLING CLUB (1960) LIMITED income £154k

Side by side with its peers

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