BARNOLDSWICK AND EARBY BOSOM FRIENDS

Registered charity 1085911 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as B.E.BOSOM FRIENDS

To alleviate physical, mental or financial distress or hardship of persons living locally and their families and friends affected by cancer, by financial support, holding support meetings, home visits, or provision of transport to hospital. Finance is obtained by holding fund-raising events, through charitable donations and through income generated by our charity shop.

Objects

1) TO ALLEVIATE PHYSICAL, MENTAL OR FINANCIAL DISTRESS OR HARDSHIP OF PERSONS WITH CANCER, THE FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF PERSONS WITH CANCER AND PERSONS BEREAVED THROUGH CANCER.2) TO PROVIDE EDUCATION ABOUT CANCER TO PERSONS WITH CANCER, THE FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF PERSONS WITH CANCER, PERSONS BEREAVED THROUGH CANCER AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC AT LARGE.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £145,728 against restricted funds of £15,000. The charity reported a deficit in unrestricted funds for the year due to renovation costs for its newly purchased premises, although shop income had increased considerably compared to the prior year.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Barnoldswick and Earby Bosom Friends (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ashley Greaves · trustee of 1 other charity
• Carly Gallacher · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ian Robert Lambert · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kirsty Fiona Gallacher · trustee of 1 other charity
• SALLY LAMBERT · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Lancashire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).