COLCHESTER GATEWAY CLUBS

Registered charity 1063731 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THURSDAY (GATEWAY) CLUB, THURSDAY (GATEWAY) CLUB COLCHESTER

Colchester Gateway Clubs provides social clubs and activities for adults with learning disabilities. Our activities include craft, art, socialising, drama, music, dance, disco, trips, weekends away. We also provide an advocacy and support service to people with learning disabilities and their families/carers.

Objects

A) THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE WITH A LEARNING DISABILITY IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF HELP AND SUPPORT FOR THEM AND FOR THEIR FAMILIES, DEPENDANTS AND CARERS, AND TO PREVENT LEARNING DISABILITIES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT; ANDB) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEED THEREOF BY REASON OF LEARNING DISABILITY WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED BUT IN PRACTICE COLCHESTER

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 · Disability · Recreation · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net movement in funds deficit of £13,566 for the year ended 31 May 2025, with total expenditure exceeding total income. Despite this deficit, the trustees report that free reserves stood at £68,556, which is significantly higher than their stated policy target of approximately £30,000 (three months of unrestricted costs).

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
• Investment
• 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

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.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jordan Southgate
• Juliette Ackerman
• MARTIN LEMON
• SANDRA DAWN HILL
• Susan Jane Cadogan
• VERONICA ELLEN SCRIVEN

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BOURNEMOUTH GATEWAY CLUB LIMITED.

• BOURNEMOUTH GATEWAY CLUB LIMITED income £113k
• GATEWAY INTO THE COMMUNITY income £843k
• BATH GATEWAY OUT & ABOUT income £58k
• ORPINGTON AND BROMLEY GATEWAY CLUB income £136k
• HIGHAM FERRERS GATEWAY CLUB income £33k
• SCOPE IN COLCHESTER AND TENDRING income £140k

Side by side with its peers

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