WILLIAM WALTER HINDE FOR OPEN SPACE

Registered charity 522893 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COFTON PARK

The provision of public spaces for healthful recreation

Objects

OPEN SPACE

Area of benefit: CITY AND COUNTY BOROUGH OF BIRMINGHAM

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity lacks sufficient funds to maintain the public spaces and keep the area in good state, relying on regular income from Birmingham City Council. Consequently, any deficit made is covered by the City Council, resulting in zero unrestricted reserves at the year-end. The charity's operations are entirely dependent on this external funding source to cover its charitable expenditure.

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 3 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Birmingham City Council · trustee of 12 other charities

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

Operates in: Birmingham City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PUBLIC OPEN SPACE.

• PUBLIC OPEN SPACE income £104k
• KING GEORGE'S FIELD income £258k
• KING GEORGE'S FIELD income £288k
• FOLKESTONE PARKS AND PLEASURE GROUNDS CHARITY income £1.3m
• Open City income £1.1m
• WEST HAM PARK income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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