ROTARY SHOEBOX SCHEME

Registered charity 1091507 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ROTARY SHOE BOX SCHEME

Using its specially designed shoeboxes the charity provides an all year round service for people in Britain and Ireland wishing to make gifts to people in Eastern Europe. The people who receive the shoeboxes are chosen by the charity solely on humanitarian grounds.

Objects

(A) TO RELIEVE POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AMONGST THOSE PERSONS IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE BY THE SUPPLY, TRANSPORT AND DISTRIBUTION OF HUMANITARIAN AID IN THE FORM OF SHOE BOXES FILLED WITH SUCH ITEMS AS ARE REQUIRED FROM TIME TO TIME AND (B) TO SUCH CHARITY OR CHARITIES OR FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE

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

Causes: Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Rochdale, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £10,361 for the year, reducing its unrestricted funds from £74,070 to £63,709. The trustees maintain a reserves policy of £10,000, which is comfortably covered by the actual unrestricted reserves of £63,709. The charity confirms it has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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 30/06/2022 (received 11/05/2023, 11 days after the 30/04/2023 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• NIGEL BRUCE DANBYchair
• Alan Stanley Ainsworth · trustee of 1 other charity
• Clive Gardiner · trustee of 1 other charity
• GILL DANBY

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

Operates in: Bulgaria · Ireland · Moldova · Northern Ireland · Romania · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales · Ukraine

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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Side by side with its peers

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