STARTING OUT CHARITY

Registered charity 1064064 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KINDNESS OFFENSIVE, STARTING OUT, THE STARTING OUT CHARITY HARROW

Assisting individuals, businesses and community groups starting out on new and challenging ventures, with a particular emphasis on stopping global warming. To relieve hardship within communities by distributing goods and services via large fun volunteering projects.

Objects

1. TO RELIEVE THOSE WHO ARE IN NEED BY PROVIDING ITEMS AND SERVICES, PARTICULARLY PERSONS WHO ARE HOMELESS OR THREATENED WITH HOMELESSNESS, OR ARE IN NEED OF WORK SPACE, BY ASSISTING THEM TO FIND ACCOMMODATION, WORK SPACE AND EMPLOYMENT SUITABLE TO THEIR NEEDS AND BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN PROVIDING EMERGENCY ACCOMMODATION AND WORKSPACE FOR SUCH PURPOSES. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF SUCH PERSONS, PARTICULARLY IN ARTS AND CRAFTS AND TO PROVIDE THEM WITH FACILITIES FOR WORK, RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF DEVELOPING THEIR MENTAL, PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY BOTH AS INDIVIDUALS AND AS RESPONSIBLE MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THAT THEIR CONDITION OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED.2. TO RELIEVE THOSE IN NEED AND THOSE WHO FACE SOCIAL OBSTACLES THROUGH THE CREATION OF NEW BUSINESSES AND IN PARTICULAR, (BUT NOT LIMITED TO), SOCIAL ENTERPRISES, (DEFINED AS A BUSINESS WITH PRIMARILY SOCIAL OBJECTIVES WHOSE SURPLUSES ARE PRINCIPALLY REINVESTED FOR THAT PURPOSE).

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is solvent, without debts, and holds £25,733 in cash funds against a reserve policy target of up to £20,000. Total receipts for the period were £161,361, providing adequate funding for initiatives into 2025.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

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.

• 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
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anton Rochechair
• Maxine Wright-Moore
• Torsten Ellison

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHARITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP.

• CHARITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP income £4.3m
• START NETWORK income £52.2m
• REACH OUT UK income £24k
• Caring for Communities and People income £13.0m
• ACTIVITEENS income £144k
• SUSTAINABILITY DEVELOPMENT income £63k

Side by side with its peers

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