BENN PARTNERSHIP CENTRE

Registered charity 1085125 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Benn Partnership Centre's mission is to educate and enable the community in Rugby by providing a multi-cultural environment where people can meet, learn, participate and develop together. Towards this end, the Centre hosts various activities around accredited and non-accredited learning, nursery, after-school club and holiday clubs for children and helps build capacity of various clubs.

Objects

(A) TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE BENN WARD AND ITS IMMEDIATE LOCALITY BY THE RELIEF OF PERSONS IN CONDITION OF NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS, IN PARTICULAR THE YOUNG, THE ELDERLY AND THE DISABLED, BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION, ADVICE, TRAINING AND SUPPORT. TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECTS OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS.(B) TO RELIEVE POOR PERSONS RESIDING IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION FOR THEM OF ADVICE AND SERVICES IN LEGAL, HOUSING, FINANCIAL AND RELATED MATTERS WHICH WOULD NOT OTHERWISE BE AVAILABLE TO THEM THROUGH LACK OF MEANS

Area of benefit: BENN WARD AND ITS IMMEDIATE LOCALITY

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £8,273 for the year, resulting in total net assets of £102,732. The trustees confirm that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern, with unrestricted funds of £23,541 and a designated Business Continuity reserve of £30,000.

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 4 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03688395

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.

• HARRINGTON, Richard Oliver, Councillor — director, appointed 14/06/2024on trustee list
• TOWERS, Simon Georgre Clifford — director, appointed 27/11/2019on trustee list
• SANGHERA, Jaswinder Kaur — director, appointed 05/11/2014on trustee list
• JOHNS, Sonia — director, appointed 09/06/2011on trustee list
• RANU, Kuldip Singh — director, appointed 09/06/2011on trustee list
• WOODINGS, Joyce — director, appointed 31/03/2011on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Darshna Vaidya
• Jaswinder Kaer Sanghera
• Joyce Woodings · trustee of 4 other charities
• KULDIP SINGH RANU
• Richard Harrington
• Rita Joshi
• SONIA JOHNS
• Simon George Clifford Towers
• Valerie McKenzie

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

Operates in: Warwickshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BEN'S CENTRE FOR VULNERABLE PEOPLE (SHEFFIELD).

• BEN'S CENTRE FOR VULNERABLE PEOPLE (SHEFFIELD) income £346k
• BERNIE GRANT CENTRE PARTNERSHIP income £1.1m
• CHINESE COMMUNITY CENTRE - BIRMINGHAM income £207k
• Active Partnerships income £3.5m
• BARTON ACORN YOUTH, COMMUNITY AND SPORTS CENTRE income £232k
• BRISTOL RUGBY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £755k

Side by side with its peers

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