SOFA

Registered charity 1002980 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as S O F A, SUPPLIERS OF FURNITURE AND APPLIANCES

Furniture Re-use Project originally set up to relieve hardship by providing low cost furniture and appliances to those in need. Provision of work experience and training for individuals seeking employment. Increasingly important is our environmental role in diverting items from landfill.

Objects

TO RELIEVE EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY PERSONS RESIDENT IN LEICESTERSHIRE AND CONTIGUOUS AREAS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS ARISING THEREFROM BY:(1) THE PROVISION OF FURNITURE AND OTHER HOUSEHOLD ACCESSORIES CALCULATED TO REDUCE THE NEED HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS OF SUCH PERSONS; AND(2) THE PROVISION OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING, SUPPORT AND WORK EXPERIENCE FOR UNEMPLOYED PERSONS WHO VOLUNTEER AT SOFA

Area of benefit: LEICESTERSHIRE AND ITS CONTIGUOUS AREAS

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net operating income of £59,465, resulting in total charity funds increasing to £137,568. The trustees report that the financial position has continued to improve, supported by sales and grant funding. The filing confirms the charity is flourishing with no stated material uncertainties regarding its future operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• BRIAN DAVID GRANGERchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• BRIAN JOHN TETLEY
• ELLIE LOWE
• VAL BROOKE

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

Operates in: Leicestershire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SOFA PROJECT.

• THE SOFA PROJECT income £676k
• GLOSSOPDALE FURNITURE PROJECT income £240k
• DONCASTER REFURNISH income £1.7m
• THE FURNITURE PROJECT income £523k
• COMMUNITY FURNITURE STORE (SELBY) LIMITED income £279k
• TURNTABLE FURNITURE income £152k

Side by side with its peers

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