THE CELLAR TRUST

Registered charity 701982 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE CELLAR PROJECT

The Cellar Trust is a recovery based mental health charity which supports individuals to return to fulfilling and independent lives, through the delivery of a range of vocationally oriented activities, and employment support.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY (“THE OBJECTS”) ARE:TO PROMOTE, PROTECT AND SAFEGUARD GOOD MENTAL HEALTH AMONGST AND SUPPORT THE REHABILITATION OF PEOPLE IN THE DISTRICT OF BRADFORD AND ELSEWHERE (“THE AREA OF BENEFIT”) WHO ARE OR HAVE BEEN MENTALLY ILL OR WHO ARE AT RISK OF BECOMING MENTALLY ILL (“THE BENEFICIARIES”).TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND DISTRESS ARISING AMONG THE BENEFICIARIES.THE OBJECTS WILL BE ACHIEVED BY PROVIDING EDUCATION AND TRAINING FACILITIES, BY PROVIDING WORKSHOP FACILITIES, CRISIS RESPONSE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL THERAPY SERVICES AND OTHER APPROPRIATE ASSISTANCE TO ASSIST THE BENEFICIARIES IN INCREASING THEIR INDEPENDENCE AND ENHANCING THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE, AND IMPROVING THEIR EMPLOYMENT PROSPECTS.

Area of benefit: BRADFORD AND ITS IMMEDIATE ENVIRONS AND SURROUNDING AREAS

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

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a breakeven position on unrestricted funding for the year ended 31 March 2025, with headline turnover increasing to £6,872,916 largely due to capital funding. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £1,188,366, representing 4.48 months of budgeted expenditure, which is within the stated policy target of 3-6 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BK Plus Audit Limited. Discloses 6 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
• 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
• Paying staff
• 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
• 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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• The Cellar Trust invites Bradford district community to special Shipley event thetelegraphandargus.co.uk · 02/09/2026
• £3m revamp of Cellar Trust in Shipley 'will change lives' bbc.co.uk · 14/02/2024
• The Cellar Trust in Shipley marks 30 years of saving those in crisis thetelegraphandargus.co.uk · 21/09/2019
• PR team digs deep to support Bradford mental health charity The Cellar Trust ilkleychat.co.uk · 06/03/2019
• Exciting times for mental health charity The Cellar Trust thetelegraphandargus.co.uk · 10/01/2019
• Shipley's Cellar Trust Cafe celebrates re-launch thetelegraphandargus.co.uk · 01/05/2016
• Cellar Trust charity opens new shop in Shipley thetelegraphandargus.co.uk · 11/12/2013

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02304802 · Financial health read from its filings

What the charity says about itself (2024-25)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Cellar Trust (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.

• HASKINS, Alison Sarah — director, appointed 14/04/2026on trustee list
• THORNTON, Gillian Margaret — director, appointed 14/04/2026on trustee list
• TAHIR, Tahmima Begum — director, appointed 14/04/2026on trustee list
• CLYDE-EVANS, Eleanor — director, appointed 14/04/2026on trustee list
• HILL, Lisa Stephanie — director, appointed 14/02/2026on trustee list
• PATEL, Muhammed — director, appointed 03/12/2024not on trustee list
• WADDINGTON, Anthony John — director, appointed 17/07/2023on trustee list
• KHALID, Shehla, Dr — director, appointed 19/07/2022on trustee list
• ARCHIBONG, Uduak Emmanuel, Dr — director, appointed 19/07/2022not on trustee list
• INGLESON, Melvyn John — director, appointed 19/07/2022on trustee list
• ROLO, Hugh Max — director, appointed 30/07/2019on trustee list
• TOMLINSON, Michael David — secretary, appointed 08/11/2022

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (93% 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: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/09/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (29/09/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Sarah Haskins
• Anthony John Waddington
• Dr Shehla Khalid
• Dr Udy Archibong
• Eleanor Clyde-Evans
• Gillian Margaret Thornton
• Hugh ROLO
• Melvyn John Ingleson
• Mohammed Patel
• Tahmima Begum Tahir

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

Operates in: Bradford City · North Yorkshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CELLAR SHOP.

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Side by side with its peers

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