THE COLCHESTER AND TENDRING COMMUNITY TRUST

Registered charity 803193 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GRASSROOTS

Charity making small grants and providing other assistance to voluntary and community organisations operating in Colchester and Tendring.

Objects

A. THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE AREA IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) IN THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION THE PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS. B. OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES WHICH ARE IN THE OPINION OF THE TRUSTEES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY IN THE COMBINED AREA OF THE COLCHESTER BOROUGH COUNCIL AND AREAS ADJACENT.

Area of benefit: SEE OBJECTS

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: Colchester, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net incoming resource surplus of £174,649 for the year ended 31 March 2026, driven by a significant increase in donations to £207,210. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £192,195, which is substantially above the stated policy target of approximately £19,372 (12 months running costs plus contingency). The trustees confirmed the charity is a going concern with adequate resources to continue operational existence for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2026 accounts as analysed 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.

• 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/07/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alice Charlotte Brotchie
• Brenda Ellis · trustee of 1 other charity
• COLIN NELSON BENNETT · trustee of 3 other charities
• David Harris
• David Paul McLeod
• Edward Anthony Bloomfield · trustee of 1 other charity
• Indira Allen · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Highton Challinor
• Robert Arthur Needham

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COLLINGHAM COMMUNITY TRUST.

• COLLINGHAM COMMUNITY TRUST income £55k
• THE TOWCESTER COMMUNITY CENTRE TRUST income £7k
• TENDRING COMMUNITY VOLUNTARY SERVICES income £1.2m
• COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £253k
• BARSTABLE TENANTS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £41k
• WANSTEAD COTTAGES TRUST income £29k

Side by side with its peers

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