CHAPTER (WEST CHESHIRE) LTD

Registered charity 1072395 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHAPTER

Chapter offers support and provides opportunities to people who have a severe and enduring mental illness diagnosis.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF PERSONS WHO HAVE OR HAVE HAD MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS IN PARTICULAR THROUGH THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING SERVICES

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cheshire West and Chester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity produced a small surplus for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income increasing to £370,965 from £294,916 the previous year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves have been restored to levels covering approximately three quarters of a year's operating costs, totaling £221,010. The charity maintains adequate controls and has secured stable funding through a three-year National Lottery grant and a local authority contract.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Claire Driffield · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gabor Balint
• Joanna Robotham
• Kevin Dionisio Hochard
• Lee Mooney · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard James Lovell Smith

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

Operates in: Cheshire West & Chester

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS.

• MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS income £28.2m
• CHESHIRE EAST CAB LTD income £711k
• SHAFTESBURY AND DISTRICT CARERS ASSOCIATION income £212k
• COMMUNITY SUPPORT CENTRE income £35k
• MERSEY COUNSELLING AND THERAPY CENTRE income £250k
• MENTAL AID LTD income £57k

Side by side with its peers

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