HELP FUND

Registered charity 1017898 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Help Fund provides support and financial assistance by way of grant and/or loan to all staff currently employed by Kent County Council when they find themselves in financial difficulties, also retired employees of Kent County Council and former employees of Kent County Council who are unemployed.

Objects

TO GRANT ASSISTANCE TO CASES OF NEED TO THE DEPENDANTS OF EMPLOYEES OF THE DONOR WHO HAVE DIED WHILST IN THE SERVICE OF THE DONOR AND TO GRANT ASSISTANCE TO THE DEPENDANTS AS AFORESAID IN CASES OF NEED ARISING AS A RESULT OF THE SAID EMPLOYEES BEING ON SICK LEAVE WITHOUT PAY OR PAY AT A REDUCED RATE AND TO GRANT ASSISTANCE TO PREMATURELY RETIRED EMPLOYEES OF THE DONOR IN CASES OF NEED ARISING THROUGH ILL HEALTH OR OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES AND AT THE DISCRETION OF THE TRUSTEES TO GRANT ASSISTANCE TO FORMER EMPLOYEES OF THE DONOR IN CASES OF NEED IN CIRCUMSTANCES NOT COVERED BY THE ABOVE AND TO GRANT ASSISTANCE TO EMPLOYEES OF THE DONOR IN CASES OF NEED IN CIRCUMSTANCES NOT COVERED BY THE ABOVE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Maidstone, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

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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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 4 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 27/10/2026, 269 days after the 31/01/2026 due date); year ending 31/03/2024 (received 27/10/2026, 634 days after the 31/01/2025 due date); year ending 31/03/2023 (received 27/10/2026, 1000 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 31/01/2023, 365 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Register events

• Transferred assets to another charity (29/04/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Emma Ginleychair
• ALLISON LOUISE CAMPBELL-SMITH
• Craig Barden
• Elizabeth Blockley
• KAREN ELIZABETH STONE
• Katie Pettitt
• Maria McLauchlan
• Mark Reeves
• Michelle Waddup
• Rebecca Maria Victoria Nicholas
• Richard Cooper
• Samuel Bassett
• Susan Berdo
• Val Magrino

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

Operates in: Kent

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