Cornwall Community Development Limited

Analysis

Cornwall Community Development Limited is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cornwall. It was registered in July 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty, arts/culture/heritage/science and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 04144745). It says it makes grants to organisations, provides other finance and provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Cornwall Community Development Limited reported income of £4.9m and spending of £4.6m, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £2.9m to £4.9m (+68%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Cornwall Community Development Limited sits at the 99th percentile: it is larger than about 98% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 98th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Global Greengrants Fund UK (£4.9m), The Society of St Columban for Foreign Missions (£4.9m) and Launchpad Reading (£4.9m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 83%, trading 10.0% and donations and legacies 6.5%. Charitable activities took 89% of spending and raising funds 11%. Reserves of £546k would cover about 1 months of spending at that rate. It employed 75 people.