THE WEST MERCIA POLICE COMMUNITY FUND

Registered charity 702428 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as P C FUND

Donations to victims of crime who suffer financial hardship following the crime. Also help local community ventures.

Objects

(A) SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR DESCRETION DETERMINE, (B) OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES INSOFAR AS THEY SHALL BE CHARITABLE IN LAW. (I) RELIEF OF POVERTY OR FINANCIAL NEED. (II) EDUCATION OR ASSISTANCE OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM ANY PHYSICAL OR MENTAL DISABILITY. (III) THE TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF ILLNESS AND DISEASE. (IV) FOR THE GENERAL BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE COUNTIES OF HEREFORD AND WORCESTER AND SHROPSHIRE.

Area of benefit: COUNTIES OF HEREFORD AND WORCESTER AND SHROPSHIRE

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £51,933.16, which the trustees describe as 'relatively low' due to a policy of spending donations in the year of receipt. The accounts were subject to an independent examination, which reported no material matters of concern. The charity reported no going concern issues and had no disclosed related-party transactions or trustee remuneration.

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 2 of 6 completeness components.

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2023 (received 05/02/2025, 97 days after the 31/10/2024 due date); year ending 31/12/2021 (received 07/02/2023, 99 days after the 31/10/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rachel Elizabeth Hartland - Lanechair
• Brian peter Gibbs
• Colin Le Roux
• David Bryant
• Edward John Hancox
• Edward Michael Slough
• Kathryn Alison Pearce
• Lisa Gill
• Rachel Adie

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

Operates in: Herefordshire · Shropshire · Telford & Wrekin · Worcestershire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WEST MIDLANDS POLICE BENEVOLENT FUND.

• WEST MIDLANDS POLICE BENEVOLENT FUND income £323k
• WEST MERCIA RAPE AND SEXUAL ABUSE SUPPORT CENTRE income £3.4m
• WESTMARK TRUST income £41k
• THE WESTERN COMMUNITY CENTRE income £34k
• ST MARY'S CENTRE COMMUNITY TRUST income £426k
• THE WEST YORKSHIRE POLICE BENEVOLENT AND LOANS FUND income £47k

Side by side with its peers

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