BENTLEY BEGINNINGS

Registered charity 1081484 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BENTLEY FAMILY CENTRE ASSOCIATION

Children's Activities

Objects

TO FURTHER ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF BENTLEY, INCLUDING THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROMOTION OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP AND THE PROMOTION OF ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE WHICH WILL DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE INHABITANTS OF BENTLEY IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY AND HELP MEET THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY

Area of benefit: BENTLEY

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

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Registered contact address: Walsall, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported an excess expenditure of £4,559.43 for the year ended 30 April 2026, resulting in a decrease in total funds. Unrestricted reserves stood at £3,928.83, while restricted funds were £5,575.00. The accounts were subject to an independent examination which reported no material matters requiring attention.

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 3 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). 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 policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• PHILIP BRIAN JAMES POWELLchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• Anita Nickless · trustee of 2 other charities
• JAMIE ERIC CLAY · trustee of 1 other charity
• ROSALYN ANN HINTON · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: Walsall

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BROMLEY 'Y'.

• BROMLEY 'Y' income £3.0m
• BRENT PUNJABI ASSOCIATION income £25k
• EARLY EXPLORERS COMMUNITY PRE-SCHOOLS income £675k
• TREFELIN BOYS' CLUB income £265k
• HELMSLEY RECREATIONAL CHARITY income £28k
• THE RHYL LITTLE THEATRE LIMITED income £109k

Side by side with its peers

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