THE SOUTHMEAD PROJECT

Registered charity 1076617 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Southmead Project offers specialist counselling and support for survivors of abuse and addiction across Bristol and surrounding areas.

Objects

To support the healing process and recovery from trauma for survivors of any type of abuse (including sexual, physical and emotional abuse, domestic violence and/or neglect) and survivors with an addiction to drugs or alcohol, through the provision or assist in the provision of specialist counselling, group work, community-based projects and education for people of all genders.

Area of benefit: SOUTHMEAD, BRISTOL

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £247,679, which is below the stated policy target of three to six months of running costs. The charity reports a net movement in funds of £53,154 and notes that it continues to meet day-to-day funding requirements through grants and donations.

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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Southmead Project (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/02/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• SIMON CRAKERchair
• Alistair Brown
• Christina Colwell
• Jack Richardson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Markkus Trew · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert Llewellyn
• SANDY MASTERS · trustee of 2 other charities
• Tony Forster · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bristol City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SOUTH BRISTOL ADVICE SERVICES.

• SOUTH BRISTOL ADVICE SERVICES income £411k
• SOUTHMEAD DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £4.3m
• SOUTHSIDE FAMILY PROJECT income £904k
• SOUTHMEAD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £41k
• SOUTHSIDE PARTNERSHIP income £19.4m
• HOPE AGAINST SUICIDE income £36k

Side by side with its peers

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