Stockport Community Foundation

Analysis

Stockport Community Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cheshire. It was registered in July 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, disability, amateur sport and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 06503967). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Stockport Community Foundation reported income of £80k and spending of £95k, spending 118% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from June 2021 to June 2023, income fell from £275k to £80k (-71%), an average of -46% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income dropped by 59%. Over the whole period it spent 127% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Stockport Community Foundation sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Wakefield Street Kitchen (£80k), Teens Dreams (£80k) and Stepping Stones Learning and Leisure (£80k).

Data notes from the register: The regulator lists this charity as in double default: it has missed the deadline for its annual return or accounts in two or more successive years. Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.