REACH TRUST

Registered charity 1080638 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COMMUNITY CHURCH DERBY, CONNECT, EAST MIDLANDS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIPS, EMMANUEL SCHOOL, HANDS TOGETHER, HANDS TOGETHER CONNECT

The furtherance of the Christian faith through the running of local churches in and around the East Midlands and the Mediterranean. This includes social enterprise projects, such as Reach Community Grocery, to serve our local communities.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £111,665 for the year, with total income of £1,046,921 and expenditure of £1,158,585. Despite this deficit, the trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves of £630,401 remain above the minimum policy target of £158,781, and the organization is able to meet its liabilities as they fall due.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by TC Group. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03971567
• Trading subsidiary: RIVERSIDE EVENT MANAGEMENT LIMITED Companies House 04473452

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• WELGEMOED, Henry Edward — director, appointed 19/01/2026on trustee list
• FERGUSON, Graeme John — director, appointed 19/01/2026on trustee list
• NORMAN, Lianna Louise — director, appointed 26/10/2024on trustee list
• WOOD, Trevor John — director, appointed 26/10/2024on trustee list
• SMITH, Andrew David — director, appointed 26/10/2024on trustee list
• PRICE, Richard Stuart — director, appointed 04/03/2024on trustee list
• DAVIES, Adam — secretary, appointed 05/03/2024

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (46% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Smithchair
• Graeme Ferguson
• Henry Welgemoed
• Lianna Norman
• Richard Price
• Trevor Wood

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

Operates in: Derbyshire · Leicestershire · Nottinghamshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with REACH CHURCH.

• REACH CHURCH income £107k
• REACHACROSS (UK) income £588k
• REACH COMMUNITY PROJECTS income £718k
• GRACE TRUST (BRISTOL) income £174k
• SPORTSREACH income £307k
• REACH SOUTH income £126k

Side by side with its peers

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