PORTSMOUTH MEDIATION SERVICE

Registered charity 1061569 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of mediation and conflict resolution services in neighbour, workplace and other situations in Portsmouth and surrounding areas in Hampshire and West Sussex.

Objects

1) TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, PREDOMINANTLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE CITY OF PORTSMOUTH, THE PROVISION OF SERVICES DIRECTED TOWARDS MEDIATION, CONCILIATION OR RECONCILIATION AS BETWEEN PERSONS, ORGANISATIONS, AUTHORITIES OR GROUPS INVOLVED OR LIKELY TO BECOME INVOLVED IN DISPUTE OR INTER-PERSONAL CONFLICT BOTH GENERALLY AND, IN PARTICULAR, IN ANY SITUATION WHERE THAT DISPUTE OR CONFLICT RESULTS FROM OR MAY LEAD TO ACTS OF VIOLENCE, NUISANCE, VANDALISM, RACIAL ABUSE, SEXUAL ABUSE, UNLAWFUL ACTIVITY OR BREAKDOWN OF PUBLIC ORDER. 2) TO ADVANCE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, PARTICULARLY IN THE SAID CITY OF PORTSMOUTH, IN THE PURPOSES AND METHODS OF SUCH MEDIATION, CONCILIATION OR RECONCILIATION AND, IN PARTICULAR, THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF ANY SUCH DISPUTES OR CONFLICTS AND OF ALL MEANS OF MANAGING THEM FOR PURPOSES OF PEACEFUL RESOLUTION IN THE INTERESTS OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP. 3) TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE PARTICIPATION BY ALL MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, PARTICULARLY IN THE SAID CITY OF PORTSMOUTH, IN THE WORK AND ACTIVITIES OF THE CHARITY IN ORDER THE BETTER AND MORE EFFECTIVELY TO FULFILL AND FURTHER THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY AND OF THE BASIS OF EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AS SET OUT IN CLAUSE 5 OF THIS MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION.

Area of benefit: CITY OF PORTSMOUTH

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £20,787 for the year ended 31 March 2026, with total unrestricted funds of £112,139. This reserve level is above the stated policy target of three to six months' expenditure. The accounts were subject to independent examination rather than audit, with no matters causing concern identified by the examiner.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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
• 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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Portsmouth Lottery — “Portsmouth Lottery - Supporting our Teach Peace initiative” (source page)
• Wessex Health Partners — “secured further funding through Wessex Health Partners to build on our CPAR findings of how conflict impacts our health and wellbeing.” (source page)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gregory Bruce Mann
• John Russell Smith
• Laura Nott
• Lisa Wills
• Paul Hutchings · trustee of 1 other charity
• Philip Winchester
• Rev Wendy May Jacobs

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Portsmouth City · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 ASHFORD MEDIATION SERVICE.

• ASHFORD MEDIATION SERVICE income £52k
• MEDIATION PLUS income £264k
• NEWPORT MEDIATION income £27k
• LAMBETH MEDIATION SERVICE income £48k
• WANDSWORTH MEDIATION SERVICE income £103k
• YORKSHIRE MEDIATION SERVICES income £61k

Side by side with its peers

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