ABBEY ACCESS CENTRE

Registered charity 1079642 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Contribute to the economic, social and environmental regeneration of the Abbey Ward and City of Lincoln area.

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY(1) PROMOTING THE TRAINING AND REHABILITATION OF PERSONS RESIDENT WITHIN THE AREA OF ABBEY WARD OF THE CITY OF LINCOLN WHO BY REASON OF THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMICAL CIRCUMSTANCES ARE UNABLE TO GAIN EMPLOYMENT(2) PROVIDING FORMAL OR INFORMAL EDUCATION AND OTHERWISE TO RELIEVE ANY HARDSHIP R DISTRESS OF THOSE IN NEED THROUGH THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES(3) TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE GENERAL BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AS THE CHARITY SHALL THINK FIT

Area of benefit: ABBEY WARD OF THE CITY OF LINCOLN

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Lincoln, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £22,545 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £255,108 to £232,562. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds were maintained at a level equating to a minimum of approximately six months of unrestricted expenditure, which the trustees confirm was sustained throughout the year.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education); Homes England. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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)

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 05/02/2025, 5 days after the 31/01/2025 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (89% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 8.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adrian Chamberlain
• Claire Woodward · trustee of 3 other charities
• Gregory Paul Bacon · trustee of 3 other charities
• Mark Jones
• Paul Woollam

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

Operates in: Lincolnshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ABBEY WARD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION.

• ABBEY WARD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £51k
• ABBEY COMMUNITY CENTRE income £490k
• ACCESS COMMUNITY TRUST income £5.9m
• SLOUGH & DISTRICT DEAF CENTRE income £137k
• THE ABBEYFIELD (CAMBORNE) SOCIETY LIMITED income £137k
• CHARITY OF JOHN DAWBER income £53k

Side by side with its peers

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