CROFT HOUSE SETTLEMENT

Registered charity 523910 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Croft House Settlement aims to provide multiple-use premises, spaces and facilities which will enable members of the local and city-wide community to take part in a range of sports, arts, community and educational activities.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY IS, IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE, TO IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE AOB WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION.

Area of benefit: SHEFFIELD COUNTY BOROUGH

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sheffield, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£38k

Latest spending

£34k

Registered

1963

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £4,302 for the year, increasing total net assets to £44,153. The trustees report that rising costs create pressure, but the surplus helps replenish reserves to maintain medium to long-term viability. The charity maintains unrestricted funds of £33,153, which is above its stated policy target of 9-12 months of unrestricted expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Letting income (77% of income)

“Letting income 29,298” — page 6

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: between 9 and 12 months unrestricted expenditure (reserves figure: £33k)

“maintain unrestricted funds, which are the free reserves of the charity, at a level which equates to between 9 and 12 months unrestricted expenditure”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

Financial reserves policy and procedures
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From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Volunteers: 10

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Volunteers: 10
Government income: £9,000 — grants £9,000 (1); 19% of the £46,302 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

Volunteers: 6

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Croft House Community Centre (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

Lucie Williamschair
DAVID STANIFORTH
Derek William Newman · trustee of 1 other charity
Dr Ian Richard Williamson
Emily Hart
GLYN BOYINGTON · trustee of 1 other charity
Ian Owers
Nisha Lall
Signed-Mair Richards

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

Operates in: Sheffield City

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£38k	£34k
31/12/2024	£46k	£52k
31/12/2023	£37k	£25k
31/12/2022	£33k	£36k
31/12/2021	£46k	£39k

Common questions

Is CROFT HOUSE SETTLEMENT financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £4,302 for the year, increasing total net assets to £44,153. The trustees report that rising costs create pressure, but the surplus helps replenish reserves to maintain medium to long-term viability. The charity maintains unrestricted funds of £33,153, which is above its stated policy target of 9-12 months of unrestricted expenditure. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds CROFT HOUSE SETTLEMENT?

Funders whose own accounts filings name CROFT HOUSE SETTLEMENT as a grant recipient include THE VEOLIA ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST, THE J G GRAVES CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE VEOLIA ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST	FY2022	£75k
THE J G GRAVES CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2021	£5k

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	06/05/2022	£5k	Celebration Day at The Crofts
The National Lottery Community Fund	03/01/2019	£10k	Project Save Energy

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
CHARITY OF SIR RICHARD WHITTINGTON	1	£42k
THE ASDA FOUNDATION	1	£23k
THE BAND TRUST	1	£20k
HAMMERSMITH UNITED CHARITIES	1	£5k
THE MIDCOUNTIES CO-OPERATIVE COMMUNITY FUND	1	£2k
THE SIR JAMES ROLL CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£2k
GOWLING WLG (UK) CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£500

Charities like this

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

BISHOP CREIGHTON HOUSE SETTLEMENT income £845k
BRADBURY COMMUNITY HOUSE CHARITY income £142k
THE NEW CROFT FOUNDATION income £300k
CROYDON AFFORDABLE HOUSING income £82k
PELSALL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £171k
CROFT CARE TRUST income £2.6m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
CROFT HOUSE SETTLEMENT	£38k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
BISHOP CREIGHTON HOUSE SETTLEMENT FY2025	£845k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
BRADBURY COMMUNITY HOUSE CHARITY FY2025	£142k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE NEW CROFT FOUNDATION FY2025	£300k	—	0	below	—	no doubt
CROYDON AFFORDABLE HOUSING FY2025	£82k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
PELSALL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION FY2025	£171k	—	0	within	—	no doubt

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