INTERACT CHELMSFORD LIMITED

Registered charity 1048631 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as INTERACT

Activities & opportunities to support children & young people with additional needs/disabilities, their families/carers & the wider community. Including training & workshops to improve peoples' emotional, mental health & well-being; friendship, leisure & learning clubs & activities, befriending & peer support; increasing awareness & reducing the stigma associated with disability.

Objects

(A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR EMPLOYMENT PARTICULARLY AMONGST ADULTS AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH PHYSICAL OR LEARNING DISABILITIES, AND THOSE WHO HAVE OR ARE RECOVERING FROM MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS REQUIRING TREATMENT AND AMONGST THE LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYED. (B) THE REHABILITATION OF SUCH PEOPLE. (C) THE RELIEF OF SUFFERING, PROVISION OF SUPPORT AND TACKLING OF ISSUES OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION FOR ANY SUCH PEOPLE AS ARE MENTIONED ABOVE BY THE PROVISION OF SERVICES INCLUDING COUNSELLING, ADVICE, MENTORING AND ADVOCACY. (D) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR EMPLOYMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. (E) THE CHARITY SHALL ALSO WORK FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY. (F) THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN SUCH WAYS AS MAY BE THOUGHT FIT, INCLUDING ASSISTANCE TO FIND EMPLOYMENT

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: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Chelmsford, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £105,217 for the year ending 31 March 2025, with total income reduced to £235,541. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves of £92,248 are currently sufficient to cover three months of operating costs, but the charity faces a challenging funding climate that may significantly reduce these reserves in the coming year.

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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 05/02/2026, 5 days after the 31/01/2026 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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Caroline Clements
• Donal Golden
• HEATHER JEAN MOORE
• Laurence Manley
• Mark Justin Hagon
• Rebecca Wade-Palmer
• Sonal Patel

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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