GRANTHAM AND DISTRICT POVERTY CONCERN GROUP

Registered charity 1060003 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GRANTHAM POVERTY CONCERN

Relief of poverty by providing meals at various drop in centres and making small emergency loans

Objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND OF ELDERLY PERSONS IN GRANTHAM AND THE SURROUNDING AREA

Area of benefit: GRANTHAM AND THE SURROUNDING AREA

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 · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the financial year with unrestricted reserves of £33,880.53, a decrease from the opening balance of £41,346.46 due to total expenditure of £42,909.68 against income of £35,443.75. The trustees report that while the charity is in a good position to help those in need, costs are expected to increase due to geo-political instability and rising demand for services.

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 4 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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

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 31/12/2022 (received 20/12/2023, 50 days after the 31/10/2023 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Moor Bio Energy — “Thank you to Moor Bio Energy for their monetary grant that we can use towards purchases that will improve the Passage services.” (source page)
• Swinarathon — “Passage have been honoured to receive a donation from this year's Swimarathon to aid the work that we do around Grantham.” (source page)
• Nottingham Building Society — “It's also very generous of you to have a collection box out, and especially for the socks!” (source page)
• BHive and Grantham Sleepout — “We've been confirmed as the recipient of the funds raised during the event, totalling £5,000, to use to purchase items that will aid in the …” (source page)

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Maddison
• Annie May Walker
• David Scott Lynn · trustee of 2 other charities
• Esme Sutton
• Ian Lindsay Whittle
• Maureen Griffiths
• Patricia Marion Temple-Fielder
• Sheila Knight
• Stephen Robert Cameron

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

Operates in: Lincolnshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COMMUNITY CONCERN LONDON.

• COMMUNITY CONCERN LONDON income £934
• GRANTHAM FOODBANK income £124k
• PARTNERSHIP FOR GROWTH income £1.3m
• GREENWICH REFUGEE AID AND COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE income £100k
• TOTTENHAM DISTRICT CHARITY income £115k
• GRAHAME CHARITABLE FOUNDATION LIMITED income £262k

Side by side with its peers

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