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Registered charity · Manchester

CO-Operative Community Investment Foundation

CO-Operative Community Investment Foundation is a registered charity (number 1093028) based in Manchester, governed by 8 trustees. Latest income £2.8m (2024). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

Also known as Community Dividend, The CO-Operative Foundation, CO-OP Foundation (Charity Commission)

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £2.8m (2024)
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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.coopfoundation.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
CO-Operative Community Investment Foundation
Registered
2002

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£2.8m£3.7m
  • 2023£5.7m£8.8m
  • 2022£3.8m£5.3m
Earlier years
  • 2021£4.5m£3.1m
  • 2020£3.4m£3.9m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2020: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO SUPPORT, THROUGH DONATIONS FROM CO-OPERATIVE ORGANISATIONS, MEMBERS, CUSTOMERS, PROJECTS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF OTHER SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES WHICH WILL BENEFIT BENEFIT THE COMMUNITIES IN WHICH BUSINESSES OF CO-OPERATIVE GROUP (CWS) LIMITED OPERATE THROUGHOUT THE AREA OF BENEFIT ESPECIALLY WHERE THE PROJECTS ARE SELF-HELP AND TO SUPPORT PROJECTS OR INITIATIVES THAT PROMOTE CHARITABLE PURPOSES WITHIN COMMUNITIES AND SELF-HELP ORGANISATIONS WHETHER WITHIN THE UK AND THE ISLE OF MAN.IN FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS BUT NOT OTHERWISE BY:(1) THE MAKING OF GRANTS TO ORGANISATIONS OF A VOLUNTARY, SELF-HELP OR NOT FOR PROFIT NATURE WORKING IN THE COMMUNITY AND INVOLVED IN PROJECTS PROVIDING LONG TERM BENEFITS TO THEIR COMMUNITIES BY WAY OF PHYSICAL BENEFITS AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC OR TRAINING OR EDUCATION.(2) THE PROVISION OF ASSISTANCE TO SUCH ORGANISATIONS BY WAY OF ADVICE, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, SEMINARS, TRAINING COURSES AND OTHER SIMILAR EVENTS AIMED AT PROMOTING THE PRINCIPLES OF DEVELOPMENT THROUGH COMMUNITY SELF-RELIANCE AND CO-OPERATION.(3) THE PROVISION OF A CENTRAL FOCUS AND INFORMATION POINT FOR DEMONSTRATING THE BENEFIT OF COMMUNITY SELF RELIANCE AND CO-OPERATION.(4) UNDERTAKING, COMMISSIONING AND FUNDING RESEARCH, ENQUIRIES OR REPORTS IN COLLABORATION WITH THE CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT OR OTHERWISE.

Grants received

7 grants · £2,415,703 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £1,188,123 (4 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £1,057,580
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport · £170,000 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £20,0002021-01-11
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £20,0002020-04-01
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £800,0002019-06-17
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport £25,0002019-01-01
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport £145,0002018-07-13

Grants given

724 grants · £23,009,351 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top recipients

Most recent

  • The Footprints Project £150,0002025-12-19
  • 100 & First Foundation £150,0002025-12-01
  • Genuine Futures CIC £75,0002025-12-01
  • Mwanzo Project CIC £150,0002025-12-01
  • Tailored Futures £150,0002025-12-01
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

8 trustees on the board

3.4y median 3.5y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (2)

8
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 8General Charitable Purposes 8The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 7Arts/culture/heritage/science 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Business services 8Arts and leisure 3Other services 3

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£2.8m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

2.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

17 from 8 in 2020
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1093028
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 27/11/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11/07/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07/03/2012
Companies House
Company number 04117665 · Active
Contact on the register
01616921877 · foundation@coop.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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