BEfriend

Registered charity 1072538 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE VOLUNTEER LINK SCHEME

Through the provision of volunteer befrienders, BEfriend aims to alleviate the social isolation experienced by people with physical, sensory, psychological or cognitive impairment living within the London Boroughs of Ealing and Hounslow. Volunteers provide weekly visits either in the home, or to support their client to go out into the community.

Objects

to relieve the isolation experienced by people with physical, sensory, cognitive or psychological impairment through the provision of volunteer befrienders within the home, or within the local community, and to relieve the stresses experienced by carers by offering a respite service through the provision of volunteer befrienders. These services are mainly carried out within the London Boroughs of Ealing and Hounslow.

Area of benefit: EALING

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

Causes: Disability · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £15,054 for the year ended 31 March 2026, with total unrestricted reserves of £169,014. The trustees have resolved to dissolve the charity, and the financial statements have been prepared on a basis other than going concern to reflect this closure.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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
• 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

• Julia Macraechair
• CARL WOODALL
• Natasha Joslin
• Sebastian Rama Barnes
• Sophie Queffurus

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

Operates in: Ealing · Hounslow

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 B:FRIEND.

• B:FRIEND income £413k
• BEREFT income £64k
• BEFRIENDED income £155k
• LET'S BEFRIENDS income £69k
• BEFRIENDERS WORLDWIDE income £40k
• BEAMSTAFFS income £211k

Side by side with its peers

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