CHEER TRUST

Registered charity 1104061 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We offer Comfort, Hope, Empathy, Encouragement and Rebuilding through effective programmes of self-help groups, Advocacy and Counselling.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN PARTICULAR FOR THE BENEFIT OF DISTRESSED SINGLE PARENTS, EITHER DIVORCED, WIDOWED, SEPARATED OR UNMARRIED, THEIR DEPENDANTS, AND CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN LONDON AND THE SURROUNDING AREA AND ELSEWHERE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, AND OTHER TERRITORIES BY:-A) ADVANCING THEIR EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT PARTICULARLY WITH A VIEW TO ASSISTING THEM IN IMPROVING THEIR WELFARE, AND THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF ENTITLEMENTS UNDER LAW;B) PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THEIR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WHICH MAY INCLUDE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE ACTIVITIES SUCH AS PERFORMANCES OF MUSIC, DANCE AND DRAMA, RECORDING OF MUSIC, FILM, VIDEO-MAKING, DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE, SO AS TO ASSIST THEM IN GROWING TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND AS MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND SO THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED;C) PROVIDING COUNSELLING AND ADVOCACY SERVICESD

Area of benefit: LONDON

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wandsworth, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing resource of £4,759 for the year ended 30 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £91,689 to £86,930. Per the trustees' report, the charity has no formal reserves policy and aims to ensure sufficient funds to meet administrative obligations. The independent examiner confirmed that no matters came to their attention giving cause to believe the accounts were not prepared in accordance with applicable standards.

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.

• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04960343

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• ROCKE, George Justin — director, appointed 31/03/2014on trustee list
• ELIA, Giancarlo — director, appointed 11/11/2003on trustee list
• WILMOT, David Michael De Joncourt, Dr — director, appointed 11/11/2003on trustee list
• COLMAN, Cherie Scheherazade — secretary, appointed 11/11/2003

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr GIANCARLO ELIAchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr DAVID MICHAEL DE JONCOURT WILMOT
• George Justin Rocke

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHESHIRE EVANGELICAL TRUST.

• CHESHIRE EVANGELICAL TRUST income £125k
• CENTRE OF HOPE income £75k
• HESED TRUST income £108k
• CONCERN AND HELP FOR EAST ELMBRIDGE RETIRED (CHEER) income £203k
• EQUIPE income £42k
• CHESED CHARITY TRUST income £988k

Side by side with its peers

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