PUBLIC OPEN SPACE

Registered charity 810154 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SHELDON RECREATION GROUND

The provision of public spaces for healthful recreation

Objects

TO BE USED FOR OPEN SPACE PURPOSES.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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's unrestricted income and expenditure both totalled £104,186 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a net movement of zero. The charity relies entirely on Birmingham City Council for funding and lacks sufficient funds to maintain public spaces independently, with any deficits covered by the Council. Per the trustees' report, the charity is dependent on this regular income to keep the area in good state.

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 WILLIAM WALTER HINDE FOR OPEN SPACE.

• WILLIAM WALTER HINDE FOR OPEN SPACE income £154k
• KING GEORGE'S FIELD income £288k
• KING GEORGE'S FIELD income £258k
• CREATE SPACE LONDON income £132k
• FOLKESTONE PARKS AND PLEASURE GROUNDS CHARITY income £1.3m
• Open City income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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