Bolton Community Furniture Store Limited

Registered charity 1101339 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BCT & FS, BOLTON COMMUNITY TRANSPORT AND FURNITURE SERVICES

Protecting the environment by collecting reusable household goods which would otherwise go to waste in order to assist people experiencing poverty in the UK through the provision of a home furniture and electrical goods service.

Objects

TO ASSIST IN THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS, THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AND ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES, BY COLLECTING REUSABLE HOUSEHOLD GOODS WHICH WOULD OTHERWISE GO TO WASTE AND PROVIDING SUCH ITEMS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITIES IN THE UK, IN PARTICULARLY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THOSE IN GREATER MANCHESTER.

Area of benefit: UK

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing resource of £11,126 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £192,819 to £181,693. Free reserves stood at £153,437, which the trustees note is sufficient to cover an average of six months of management and administrative expenditure. The charity operates on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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
• 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jeanne Marie Kellychair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ANDREW WRAY WALLEN
• Hayley Lord

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

Operates in: Bolton · Bury · Manchester City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COMMUNITY FURNITURE STORE (YORK) LTD.

• COMMUNITY FURNITURE STORE (YORK) LTD income £687k
• COMMUNITY FURNITURE STORE (SELBY) LIMITED income £279k
• FURNITURE RESOURCE CENTRE LIMITED income £21.7m
• TURNTABLE FURNITURE income £152k
• GLOSSOPDALE FURNITURE PROJECT income £240k
• THE NEWBURY COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE LIMITED income £2.1m

Side by side with its peers

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