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The Harborne Parish Lands Charity

The Harborne Parish Lands Charity is a registered charity (number 219031) based in Birmingham, governed by 1 trustee. Latest income £2.0m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

  • 1 trustee
  • Income £2.0m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

No individual trustees are listed on the register.

Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: Harborne and Smethwick Charitable Trust.

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing
Where
Birmingham City, Sandwell
Website
www.hplc.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1979

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.0m£2.0m
  • 2024£1.9m£2.2m
  • 2023£1.7m£1.8m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.6m£1.5m
  • 2021£1.5m£1.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE PROVISION OF ALMSHOUSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF POOR PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE ALMSPEOPLE OF THE CHARITY OR ANY OF THEM IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT FROM TIME TO TIME. FOR RELIEVING EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS. FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE SCHEME OF 21 MAY 1979. THE AREA OF BENEFIT SHALL MEAN THE AREA OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISHES OF ST. BONIFACE QUINTON ROAD WEST, BIRMINGHAM, ST. FAITH AND ST. LAURENCE, HARBORNE, ST. JOHN, HARBORNE, ST. PETER, HARBORNE, ST. ALBANS, SMETHWICK, ST. CHAD, SMETHWICK, ST. MARY, SMETHWICK, ST. MATTHEW, SMETHWICK, ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, SMETHWICK, ST. STEPHENS, SMETHWICK AND ST. PAUL, WEST SMETHWICK.

Board analysis

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£2.0m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
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.

41.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 17.6 in 2021

13 from 12 in 2021
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
219031
Status
Registered
Governing document
SCHEME DATED 21/05/1979AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 09/10/1986AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 16/11/1990AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 24/02/2012
Contact on the register
01214261600 · steven.simpson@hplc.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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