COUNTY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 900239 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHARITIES OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE COMMUNITY TRUST, GCF, GLOUCESTERSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

The Foundation's objectives, as defined in the Memorandum and Articles of Association, are the promotion of any exclusively charitable purpose in the United Kingdom and elsewhere which is in the opinion of the Council beneficial to the community but with a preference for the community in Gloucestershire.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF ANY EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE WHICH IS IN THE OPINION OF THE COUNCIL BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY WITH A PREFERENCE FOR THE COMMUNITY IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE.

Area of benefit: GLOUCESTERSHIRE

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Tewkesbury, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £90,275, which the trustees confirm covers six months of essential resource costs, meeting their policy target of three to six months. The charity reported an overall deficit on running costs of £13,886 for the year, largely offset by a legacy transfer, resulting in a net increase in unrestricted funds. The auditors confirmed that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Randall & Payne LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "within" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 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.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Gloucestershire Community Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Freemasons — “Brain Tumour Support used a grant of £1,000 from the Freemasons programme to help run community support groups.” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 27.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/11/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/11/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alannah Mae Keogh
• Bethany Joan Eckley
• Esme Estella Lord
• HENRY CLAUDE WINWOOD ROBINSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jenny Boland
• Jonathan James Stewart Dunley
• Joseph Henry McClean
• Matthew Paul Williams
• Nelson Gary Tarleton
• Richard Ingle Mr
• Robert Ian Renton

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE ASSOCIATION FOR DISABILITY.

• THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE ASSOCIATION FOR DISABILITY income £248k
• OXFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £2.1m
• THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE SOCIETY income £160k
• GLOUCESTERSHIRE RURAL COMMUNITY COUNCIL income £1.3m
• CHESHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LIMITED income £2.3m
• COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF LANCASHIRE income £738k

Side by side with its peers

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