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Registered charity 1105997 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FURNITRUST

Recycling and re-use of furniture and electrical items in Taunton area. Free collection for resale at low prices to people on benefits and low income. Many of our customers are being resettled from temporary accommodation to new housing by local authority and/or supported by social services and local charities.

Objects

TO RELIEVE NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS BY PROVIDING PRACTICAL FURNITURE AND OTHER HOUSEHOLD EQUIPMENT AT AFFORDABLE PRICES FOR PERSONS OF LIMITED MEANS RESIDENT WITHIN TAUNTON AND SURROUNDING AREAS.

Area of benefit: TAUNTON AND SURROUNDING AREAS.

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating deficit of £24,779 for the year ended March 2025, a reversal from the previous year's surplus, driven by increased direct expenditure and rental costs. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds total unrestricted funds of £83,489, which the Board believes are adequate to maintain resources for future contingencies despite economic uncertainty.

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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05198011

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.

• BELL, Anthony Forrester — director, appointed 16/09/2024on trustee list
• HARDING, Anthony Joseph Daniel — director, appointed 08/08/2024on trustee list
• ACHESON, Nicholas Stanley James — director, appointed 10/06/2024on trustee list
• TRIGG, Julia — director, appointed 23/08/2023on trustee list
• GOODMAN, Martyn Charles — director, appointed 01/04/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mr Nicholas Stanley James ACHESONchair
• Anthony Forrester Bell
• Anthony Joseph Daniel Harding
• JULIA TRIGG · trustee of 1 other charity
• Martyn Charles Goodman

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

Operates in: Somerset

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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