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.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:2.1 THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND HARDSHIP;2.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING;2.3 THE FURTHERANCE OF HEALTH;2.4 THC PROMOTION OF SOCIAL REHABILITATION OR RESETTLEMENT;2.5 THC PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE; AND2.6 THE PROMOTION OF THE PHYSICAL INTELLECTUAL, SOCIAL AND MORAL WELFARE OF THC COMMUNITY IN THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD (HEREINAFTER CALLED "THECOMMUNITY") AND ELSEWHERE IN THC UNITED KINGDOM

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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)

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01946604

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Birmingham Settlement (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.

• PENIKET, Emma Louise — director, appointed 19/01/2026on trustee list
• BRAMWELL, Rachel Alice — director, appointed 19/01/2026on trustee list
• SEWELL, Deborah Michelle — director, appointed 19/01/2026on trustee list
• RAINE, Joanna Hazel Dickson — director, appointed 19/01/2026on trustee list
• HACKFORTH, Yvonne Elizabeth — director, appointed 19/01/2026on trustee list
• SKELLERN, Sophie — director, appointed 07/07/2025on trustee list
• ROBERTS, Stuart Kurt — director, appointed 08/03/2023on trustee list
• BURGESS, Michael George — director, appointed 15/12/2021on trustee list
• GREGSON, Matthew — director, appointed 28/11/2018on trustee list
• HOLCOMBE, Martin Nicholas — secretary, appointed 14/11/2013

Official officers record.

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 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~4.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (74% 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: 3.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (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

• 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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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 BIRMINGHAM CITY MISSION.

• BIRMINGHAM CITY MISSION income £1.4m
• Birmingham Hospice income £19.1m
• THE LORD MAYOR OF BIRMINGHAM'S CHARITY income £59k
• THE BENJAMIN FOUNDATION income £8.7m
• THE BIRMINGHAM CATHOLIC CHARISMATIC RENEWAL CONFERENCE income £43k
• BRISTOL CHARITIES income £3.3m

Side by side with its peers

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