THURROCK CENTRE FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING

Registered charity 1081271 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as INDEPENDENCE RESOURCE CENTRE, IRC, THURROCK INDEPENDENCE RESOURCE CENTRE, THURROCK INDEPENDENCE RESOURCE CENTRE TIRC

Provides support to enable disabled people to live independent lives by providing advice, support and advocacy. The Charity also manages employment support projects enabling disabled people to become more work ready.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF NEED OF DISABLED PEOPLE BY:1. THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, SUPPORT, ASSISTANCE AND OPPORTUNITIES 2. ENCOURAGING AND SUPPORTING INDEPENDENT LIVING AND INDEPENDENCE BY PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES.

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: Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Thurrock, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of £(12,184), resulting in total funds decreasing from £139,982 to £127,798. The trustees consider there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, citing sufficient budgeted income and reserves to cover the next 12 months. However, the trustees' report notes that the future remains unpredictable due to continuing funding shortages and the financial mismanagement of the local council.

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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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 31/03/2023 (received 20/02/2024, 20 days after the 31/01/2024 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03855994

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.

• ELLMORE, Penny Jane — director, appointed 01/04/2026on trustee list
• SALIBA, Antonia Teresa — director, appointed 10/12/2022on trustee list
• LONG, Patrick Francis — director, appointed 17/09/2020on trustee list
• WHITE, Anne Patricia — director, appointed 01/10/2013not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Antonia Saliba
• Daniel Leaman
• Patrick Long
• Penny Ellmore

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

Operates in: Thurrock

Income and spending

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NORTH YORKSHIRE CENTRE FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING.

• NORTH YORKSHIRE CENTRE FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING income £74k
• INDEPENDENT LIVES (DISABILITY) income £3.3m
• SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING income £3.5m
• HELPING DISABILITIES TRUST income £131k
• THE TUEBROOK COMMUNITY CENTRE GROUP income £26k
• THURROCK OPEN DOOR income £442k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.