THE ELY COMMUNITY UNIT TRUST

Registered charity 1101031 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To relieve in case of need, hardship or disability people who are resident in north eastern cambridgeshire. To further the education of children & adults in this area other charitable purposes as the trustees shall think fit.

Objects

FOR THE FOLLOWING OBJECTS IN EAST CAMBRIDGESHIRE ('THE AREA OF BENEFIT') TO RELIEVE IN CASES OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS, PERSONS WHO ARE RESIDENT WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT; TO FURTHER THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS RESIDENT WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT; AND FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE GENERAL BENEFIT OF RESIDENTS WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: EAST CAMBRIDGESHIRE

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: East Cambridgeshire, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds carried forward increased to £60,253, with a net movement in funds of £1,940 for the year. The charity holds a reserve policy of twelve months' expenses, and unrestricted funds are held in bank accounts and investments. The trustees report that risk management is in order and there are no long-term liabilities.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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 30/06/2023 (received 20/05/2024, 20 days after the 30/04/2024 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

• Andrew William Marshall
• Christopher John Phillips · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr NICHOLAS GORDON MUMFORD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gordon McGinley
• MARY RONE
• RICHARD JOHN TYLER
• Rebekah Louise Genery-Mumford

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ISLE OF ELY SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND.

• ISLE OF ELY SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND income £34k
• THE ERIC WRIGHT CHARITABLE TRUST income £314.8m
• ELH CHARITABLE TRUST income £41k
• THE EARLEY CHARITY income £235k
• ELY DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £132k
• ELTHAM UNITED CHARITIES income £313k

Side by side with its peers

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