Heeley Trust

What Heeley Trust does

Heeley Trust is a registered UK charity (Charity No: 1067567, Company Number: 3288676) headquartered at Ash Tree Yard, 62-68 Thirlwell Road, Sheffield, focused on people, land, and buildings in the Heeley neighborhood of Sheffield. Founded in 1996, the organization employs 16 people and operates as an integrated portfolio of six distinct community projects: Heeley People's Park (transforming derelict land into community green space), the Heeley Trust Community Team (core outreach and neighborhood services), A Different Gear and All Points North (people-focused community development initiatives), Sum Studios (creative studios and arts/media facilities), and The Heeley Institute (an educational and community learning hub). Together these projects address neighborhood blight, community facility access, employment and skills support, and creative/educational opportunity within a single defined catchment area.

The organization's underlying "technology" is a non-commercial, on-the-ground service delivery model rather than a software or platform play. Its distribution is direct to local residents and community members via its website (heeleytrust.co.uk), phone, email, Facebook, and Instagram, with no intermediaries, integrations, APIs, or proprietary digital products described. The website itself is a standard WordPress deployment using the Neve theme, and the organization has no app, no disclosed APIs or SDKs, and no technology partnerships.

Heeley Trust's revenue model is that of a UK community charity: it does not sell products or services commercially and has no disclosed pricing. Funding is sourced from grants, donations, and charitable activities, and the organization is not a public, private-equity-backed, or venture-backed entity. The customer/beneficiary base is the local population of the Heeley area of Sheffield, served through the six project channels, and there is no commercial segment mix, no enterprise/SMB contract base, and no named paying customers in the input data.

Name

Heeley Trust

Legal name

Heeley Trust

Website

https://heeleytrust.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Heeley Trust is a registered UK charity in Sheffield operating six integrated community projects — a park, outreach team, creative studios, educational institute, and people-development initiatives — that serve local residents in the Heeley neighborhood through grants and donations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Development Charitable Services

NAICS

Grantmaking Foundations (813211), Grantmaking and Giving Services (81321)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Private Foundations (BPAGAKAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Philanthropic & Charitable Trust Services (FSAAANAI)

Keywords

• Community development
• Neighborhood regeneration
• Community green spaces
• Creative workspace services
• Community education programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Sheffield

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Heeley Trust is a registered UK charity operating a portfolio of six interconnected community projects in the Heeley area of Sheffield. The organization delivers community services spanning green-space management (Heeley People's Park), neighborhood outreach (Heeley Trust Community Team), community development initiatives (A Different Gear, All Points North), creative studio facilities (Sum Studios), and educational programming (The Heeley Institute). Services are provided free or subsidized to local residents, funded through grants, donations, and charitable activities rather than commercial sales.

Product overview

Heeley Trust is a charitable organization operating as a portfolio of six interconnected community projects rather than a commercial product platform. The offerings include Heeley People's Park (transforming derelict land into green spaces), Heeley Trust Community Team (core community outreach), A Different Gear and All Points North (community development initiatives), Sum Studios (creative arts facilities), and The Heeley Institute (educational hub). These projects collectively address community needs around land development, social support, creative arts, and education in the Heeley area of Sheffield.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Heeley People's Park: Community park project managed by Heeley Trust
• Heeley Trust Community Team
• A Different Gear
• All Points North
• Sum Studios
• The Heeley Institute

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Locality: UK membership network supporting community-led organizations, providing resources, advocacy, and development support to local charities. Comparable as a community infrastructure organization serving neighborhood-level social enterprises and charities in England.
• Groundwork UK: National federation of community charities focused on environmental regeneration, community green spaces, and neighborhood improvement across the UK. Directly comparable as a community-focused charity delivering integrated land and people projects, with similar reliance on grants and local authority funding.
• Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES): UK-based charity focused on local economic development and community wealth building. Comparable as a community-focused registered charity working on neighborhood regeneration and inclusive local economies, often in post-industrial northern English cities similar to Sheffield.
• Big Local: National Lottery-funded program delivering £1m+ to resident-led partnerships in 150 UK neighborhoods for community-led improvement. Comparable as a UK charity funding community regeneration projects at the neighborhood level with similar geographic concentration and grant-dependent funding model.

Broad incumbents

• Power to Change: UK charitable trust supporting community businesses and social enterprises. Comparable as a registered UK charity focused on community economic development, though operating at national scale as a grantmaking body rather than delivering local services directly.
• Tudor Trust: Major UK charitable foundation providing grants to small-to-medium community charities across England. Comparable as a registered charity in the UK community development space, though operating at significantly greater scale as a grantmaker rather than direct service provider.
• Esmée Fairbairn Foundation: One of the UK's largest independent grant-making foundations, funding charities working on social, environmental, and cultural issues. Comparable as a charitable foundation in the UK community/social services space, though operating as a funder rather than direct service provider.

Regional players

• Sheffield City Council Communities Team: Local authority unit responsible for community development, neighborhood regeneration, and grant administration within Sheffield. Comparable as a Sheffield-focused entity delivering community services and distributing regeneration funding in the same geographic market as Heeley Trust.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/HeeleyTrust
• Instagraminstagram.com/heeleytrust
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/heeley-trust

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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