THE BIRMINGHAM SETTLEMENT

Registered charity 517303 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The relief of poverty, distress and hardship;The furtherance of health;The advancement of education and vocation training;The promotion of social rehabilitation;The promotion of the physical, intellectual, social and moral welfare of the community; andThe provision of recreational facilities in the interest of social welfare.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an overall deficit of £129,094 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by significant investment in asset developments. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stand at £770,000, which is below the stated policy target of six months' running costs, though the trustees consider this level sufficient to manage a major loss of funding.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Thomas & Young Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Birmingham Settlement (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

7 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold); recorded price paid £165k. 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 ~4.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (65% 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: 2.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/09/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (28/06/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Matthew Gregsonchair
• Deborah Sewell
• Emma Louise Peniket
• Joanna Hazel Dickson Raine
• Michael Burgess
• Rachel Alice Bramwell
• Sophie Skellern
• Stuart Roberts
• Yvonne Elizabeth Hackforth

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MANCHESTER SETTLEMENT.

• MANCHESTER SETTLEMENT income £1.8m
• BIRMINGHAM EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP LIMITED income £2.3m
• BIRMINGHAM PLAYCARE NETWORK income £329k
• FOCUS BIRMINGHAM income £4.3m
• THE BIRMINGHAM DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £14.6m
• THE BIRMINGHAM COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST GENERAL CHARITY income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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