BODY POSITIVE CHESHIRE AND NORTH WALES

Registered charity 1009850 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BPCNW, CHESHIRE AND NORTH WALES BODY POSITIVE GROUP

Social Care services:Support, information and advice for people living with or affected by HIV & AIDS. Welfare and benefits advice, housing and legal information.Prevention & Health Promotion:Training and information for professionals regarding sexual health and sexuality. Condom and lube provision, peer support groups for LGBT people. Sexual health screening, training for local community.

Objects

(1) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AMONGST THOSE INFECTED WITH THE HUMAN IMMUNE DEFICIENCY VIRUS (HIV) AND THOSE PERSONS GENERALLY WHO HAVE DEVELOPED ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME (AIDS) RELATED DISEASES OR WHO ARE OR HAVE BEEN PERSONALLY AFFECTED BY HIV/AIDS OR RELATED CONDITIONS (2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND TO PROMOTE RESEARCH IN ALL MATTERS ASSOCIATED WITH THE EFFECTS OF HIV INFECTION AND AIDS AND THE PREVENTION THEREOF AND TO DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED BUT IN PRACTICE CHESHIRE AND NORTH WALES

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £114,865, which is below the charity's stated policy target of six months' operating costs. Despite this, the trustees report no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• MICHELLE SIMPSONchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nigel Davies
• Ron Whalley
• Salli Jeynes
• Sandra Sinclair
• Simon Millar

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Cheshire West & Chester · Conwy · Denbighshire · Flintshire · Gwynedd · Halton · Isle Of Anglesey · Wrexham

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• POSITIVE EAST income £1.9m
• EMBRACE UK COMMUNITY SUPPORT CENTRE income £1.5m
• SAVING LIVES income £401k
• NATIONAL AIDS TRUST income £1.1m
• CITIZENS ADVICE CHESHIRE WEST income £1.8m
• AGE CONCERN CHESHIRE income £2.1m

Side by side with its peers

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