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Charity of Dorothy Parkes Known AS Smethwick Chapelry

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £90k (2025)

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

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Who leads it

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

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About

What it does
Religious Activities
Where
Birmingham City, Sandwell
Registered
1964

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£90k£82k
  • 2024£84k£72k
  • 2023£79k£66k
Earlier years
  • 2022£94k£62k
  • 2021£70k£64k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

52S. A YEAR FOR BREAD TO BE DISTRIBUTED EVERY SUNDAY AMONG 12 POOR INHABITANTS OF SMETHWICK WHO HAVE ATTENDED DIVINE SERVICE BOTH MORNING AND EVENING. 52S. A YEAR TO BE USED IN THE SAME MANNER AMONG 12 POOR INHABITANTS OF THE OTHER PART OF THE PARISH OF HARBORNE. ú4. 10S. FOR CLOTHES TO BE DISTRIBUTED ANNUALLY, ON ST. THOMAS'S DAY, AMONG 6 POOR WOMEN OF THE PARISH OF HARBORNE - 3 TO BE OF THE HAMLET OF SMETHWICK AND 3 TO THE OTHER PART OF THE PARISH. 6S. FOR BIBLES TO BE DISTRIBUTED ON ST. THOMAS'S DAY AMONG THE POOR OF SMETHWICK.

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.

5 trustees on the board

6.3y median 4y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

15.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (1)

Portfolio (4)

4
company-linked trustees

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

Religious Activities 5Disability 2The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 2Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Education/training 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.

Other services 3Health and social care 2Arts and leisure 1

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£90k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
221621
Status
Registered
Governing document
INDENTURES OF LEASE AND RIELEASE DATED 29TH AND 30TH MAY, 1719, ACTS 55 GEO III C. 108 AND 495 VICT.47, ORDER SEALED 15/12/1908 AND SCHEME SEALED 17/12/1929.
Contact on the register
01212273720 · shiggins@vwv.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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