Bedfordshire Rural Communities Charity (Beds RCC)

Registered charity 1061538 · since 1997bedsrcc.org.uk·Bedfordshire·Updated 30 October 2026

At a glance

£5,830

Annual giving, year to 31 March 2025

From filed accounts

Key takeaways

Beds RCC's stated aims centre on education, health and the relief of poverty, distress or sickness, and its priority area is the historic county of Bedfordshire, so projects in those areas are the closest fit its stated aims describe.
The annual report gives £5,830 paid in total, which may include grants to individuals, so a modest request fits the scale shown.
No application process is publicly published, so contact the charity before writing a full application to ask how to apply and whether your project suits its priorities.
Funding must clearly fit the charity's own priorities, decisions are made by an independent panel, and recipients must submit final reports on outcomes, so plan for monitoring and reporting from the start.

Overview

Bedfordshire Rural Communities Charity (Beds RCC) is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1061538).

Bedfordshire Rural Communities Charity (Beds RCC) exists to help people and communities in Bedfordshire to do more for themselves. Its charitable purpose is to promote any charitable purpose for the benefit of the community, primarily in the historic county of Bedfordshire, and in particular the advancement of education, the protection of health and the relief of poverty, distress or sickness. The annual report gives £5,830 paid in total, which may include grants to individuals.

What they fund

Profile based on the charity's Charity Commission register entry and annual report (year to 31 March 2025) only. Every statement is checked against them. Sources read on 30 October 2026.

Priority Areas

The charity manages grant programmes only where they clearly fit its own priorities, objectives and mission. It promotes and advertises them to reach the full range of target beneficiaries, with application procedures described as straightforward, transparent and clearly explained. An independent, representative panel makes allocation decisions, separate from staff involved in project-development work. For awarded grants, the charity monitors expenditure and progress at appropriate intervals, ensuring that funding is used for its given purpose, and recipients submit final reports on outcomes.

Geographic Focus

Priority: The Historic County Of Bedfordshire.

How to apply

Grant funds are promoted and advertised to reach the full range of target beneficiaries, and the application procedures are straightforward, transparent and clearly explained.

Application success factors

What the charity says:

Funding programmes must clearly fit the charity's own priorities, objectives and mission.
An independent and representative panel is accountable for decisions on grant allocation.
The charity monitors expenditure and progress to ensure grants are spent for their stated purpose.
Recipients submit final reports outlining the outcomes of grant funding.

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

Bedfordshire

Similar funders

Funders supporting work similar to Bedfordshire Rural Communities Charity (Beds RCC).

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Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 March 2021	£2,345,953	£2,305,528	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2021
year to 31 March 2022	£2,888,801	£2,661,143	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2022
year to 31 March 2023	£3,548,222	£2,808,071	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2023
year to 31 March 2024	£2,370,069	£2,571,804	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2024
year to 31 March 2025	£2,320,235	£2,411,779	£5,830	Accounts for year to 31 March 2025

Grants paid, year to 31 March 2025: grants paid out in the year.

— No grants figure for those years.

Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.