WEST KENT MEDIATION

Registered charity 1100637 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Offer a free, professional, confidential mediation service to all residents of West Kent involved in neighbour/community disputes and parent/teen family problems.

Objects

TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT PREDOMINANTLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE LOCAL COMMUNITY OF WEST KENT THE PROVISION OF SERVICES DIRECTED TOWARDS MEDIATION, CONCILIATION OR RECONCILIATION AS BETWEEN PERSONS, ORGANISATIONS, AUTHORITIES OR GROUPS INVOLVED OR LIKELY TO BECOME INVOLVED IN DISPUTE OR INTER-PERSONAL CONFLICT INCLUDING WHERE THAT DISPUTE OR CONFLICT RESULTS FROM OR MAY LEAD TO ACTS OF VIOLENCE, OR THE THREAT OR RISK OF VIOLENCE, NUISANCE, VANDALISM, RACIAL ABUSE, UNLAWFUL ACTIVITY, BREACH OF THE PEACE OR BREAKDOWN OF PUBLIC ORDER; AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SAID AREA IN THE PURPOSES AND METHODS AND USE OF MEDIATION AND, IN PARTICULAR, IN THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF SUCH DISPUTES AND CONFLICTS.

Area of benefit: IN THE LOCAL COMMUNITY OF WEST KENT

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 incurred a net expenditure of £3,045, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted reserves from £50,079 to £47,034. The trustees report that the charity is currently surviving by drawing on these reserves, a situation they explicitly describe as 'clearly not sustainable in the longer term.'

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
• 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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/09/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gillian Louise Brewster
• Marica Tearle
• Patrick William Eastman Hart Mr · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rebecca Clibbens
• Samuel Charles Francis Burridge

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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