Resolve West LTD

Registered charity 1000641 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRISTOL MEDIATION, BRISTOL MEDIATION-NEW APPROACHES TO CONFLICT RESOLUTION LTD

Resolve West is an independent, charity with over 37 years experience of providing confidential services to enable people to resolve conflict, and repair harm and for offenders to understand impact of actions and to have an opportunity to make amends. Our services are provided to residents across Avon & Somerset.

Objects

TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF THE CITIZENS AND COMMUNITIES IN AND AROUND THE CITY OF BRISTOL AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES AND WITH A VIEW TO THE PRESERVATION OF PUBLIC ORDER, THE PROVISION OF SERVICES DIRECTED TOWARDS REPAIRING HARM BY RESTORATIVE JUSTICE WORKING WITH VICTIMS OF CRIME AND PERPETRATORS OF HARM; AND RESOLVING CONFLICT BY MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION BETWEEN PERSONS, ORGANISATIONS AND GROUPS WHO ARE INVOLVED OR WHO ARE AT RISK OF BECOMING INVOLVED IN DISPUTES OR INTERPERSONAL CONFLICTS WHERE ANY SUCH DISPUTE OR CONFLICT RESULTS FROM OR MAY LEAD TO ACTS OF NUISANCE, VANDALISM, RACIAL ABUSE OR BREACH OF THE PEACE.

Area of benefit: BRISTOL

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£312k

Latest spending

£330k

Registered

1990

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £17,834 for the year, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted reserves to £127,821. The trustees note that while there are concerns about the financial trajectory and the impact of the cost of living crisis, the charity has sufficient reserves to meet these challenges and continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: between £113,000 and £183,000 (reserves figure: £128k)

“The policy of the trustees is to maintain free financial reserves equivalent to between three (£71,000) and six months (£142,000) of core running costs and salaries, plus redundancy costs (£42,000). The total reserves should therefore be between £113,000 and £183,000.” — page 8

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

Volunteers: 57
Government income: £253,803 — contracts £37,000 (1), grants £216,803 (2); 81% of the £312,077 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

Volunteers: 67
Government income: £248,016 — contracts £37,000 (1), grants £211,016 (2); 78% of the £316,305 total gross income on the same return
Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

Volunteers: 70
Government income: £236,438 — contracts £45,000 (1), grants £191,438 (2); 60% of the £391,007 total gross income on the same return

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram · linkedin

Trustees · trustee networks

Afsana Gibson-Chowdhury
Anthony David Hughes
Martine Kim Smith
Ralph Richard David Wynne-Griffiths
Richard Miles Bennett
Roger Anthony Stanford Isaacs
Silvia Laraia
Tamlyn Anne Driver

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Bristol City · North Somerset · Somerset · South Gloucestershire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£312k	£330k
31/03/2024	£316k	£345k
31/03/2023	£391k	£345k
31/03/2022	£351k	£346k
31/03/2021	£346k	£326k

Common questions

Is Resolve West LTD financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £17,834 for the year, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted reserves to £127,821. The trustees note that while there are concerns about the financial trajectory and the impact of the cost of living crisis, the charity has sufficient reserves to meet these challenges and continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds Resolve West LTD?

Funders whose own accounts filings name Resolve West LTD as a grant recipient include THE NANI HUYU CHARITABLE TRUST, THE DAVID FAMILY FOUNDATION, THE NOEL BUXTON TRUST, THE TRUEMARK TRUST, THE S M B TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE NANI HUYU CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2021	£16k
THE DAVID FAMILY FOUNDATION	FY2021	£5k
THE NOEL BUXTON TRUST	FY2022	Unverified read£3k	To help with the core costs of a restorative justice project.
THE DAVID FAMILY FOUNDATION	FY2024	£3k
THE NOEL BUXTON TRUST	FY2023	£3k	To help with the core costs of a restorative justice project.
THE TRUEMARK TRUST	FY2021	£3k
THE S M B TRUST	FY2023	£2k
THE DAVID FAMILY FOUNDATION	FY2023	£1k
THE ASTOR FOUNDATION	FY2023	£1k
THE JOYCE FLETCHER CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£1k
THE JOYCE FLETCHER CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£1k
THE DAVID FAMILY FOUNDATION	FY2022	amount not stated

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
A B Charitable Trust	06/08/2026	£25k	A grant to Resolve West
The National Lottery Community Fund	23/01/2014	£10k	Mediation Outreach Project - Reaching out to Communities

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOUNDATION	1	£298k
JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION	1	£101k
ROSA FUND	1	£50k
THE LETCHWORTH CIVIC TRUST	1	£46k
PAUL HAMLYN FOUNDATION	1	£20k
THE ORR MACKINTOSH FOUNDATION LIMITED	1	£10k
THE GEORGE AND ESME POLLITZER CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT	1	£10k
THE BEATRICE LAING TRUST	1	£5k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with RESOLVE.

RESOLVE income £884k
MEDIATION PLUS income £264k
RIVERSIDE ADVICE LTD income £539k
WEST KENT MEDIATION income £52k
RENEWAL NORTH WEST income £1.5m
DIVERSITY MATTERS NORTH WEST LTD income £455k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
Resolve West LTD	£312k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
RESOLVE FY2025	£884k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
MEDIATION PLUS FY2025	£264k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
RIVERSIDE ADVICE LTD FY2025	£539k	—	0	below	—	no doubt
WEST KENT MEDIATION FY2025	£52k	—	0	unclear	—	noted
RENEWAL NORTH WEST FY2025	£1.5m	—	—	above	—	no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.