COMPUTERS FOR CHARITIES

Registered charity 1107802 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Computers for Charities provides IT / Educational support to UK and Overseas Charities and Voluntary organisations. Primarily as developers of educational and vocational initiatives to aid registered organisatons. Supply of refurbished equipment and resources. Plus involvement of humanitarian aid where required.

Objects

The Charity’s objects (“the Objects”) are:- a) To promote the efficiency of charitable organisations by the provision of IT and computer services, support and training and in so far as the charity considers it furthers the charitable purpose to provide such support to other voluntary organisations in the United Kingdom or the World. b) To promote for the benefit of the public the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment by the provision of environmentally sympathetic services for the recycling / reuse of electrical waste in a manner which protects the physical and natural environment and in particular (but not so as to limit the generality of the foregoing) by the recycling of computers in the United Kingdom or the World.c) To relieve persons who are in conditions of need or hardship or who are aged or sick and to relieve unemployment for public benefit particularly but not exclusively by providing sheltered employment for people with special needs and for prisoners in such parts of the United Kingdom or the World as the Trustees may from time to time think fit.d) To advance education in accordance with Christian principles by such means as the Trustees may consider appropriate and to advance education of the public in the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment particularly but not exclusively in relation to the disposal of waste by environmentally sympathetic method by such means as the trustees may from time to time think fit , in each case in such parts of the United Kingdom or the World as the Trustees may from time to time think fit; and to fulfil such other purposes which are exclusively charitable according to the law of England and Wales and are connected with the charitable work of the charity.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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 · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wealden, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a profit of £18,549 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in retained profits carried forward of £126,182. The entity was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006, and the members did not require an audit. The financial statements were prepared in accordance with the small companies' regime.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• 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

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05332032

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Computers for Charities (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• THWAITES, Richard Charle Ambrose — director, appointed 25/07/2023on trustee list
• KIMBLE, John Robert Ronald — director, appointed 30/09/2008on trustee list
• ROOKSBY, Simon Matthew — director, appointed 13/01/2005not on trustee list
• ROOKSBY, Simon Matthew — secretary, appointed 01/07/2023

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• SIMON MATTHEW ROOKSBY RNchair
• JOHN ROBERT KIMBLE
• Richard Charles Ambrose Thwaites

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

Operates in: Abu Dhabi · Afghanistan · Ajman · Akrotiri · Aland Islands · Albania · Algeria · American Samoa · Andorra · Angola · Anguilla · Antarctica

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with APPS FOR GOOD.

• APPS FOR GOOD income £607k
• COMPUTERAID INTERNATIONAL income £2.2m
• THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGISTS CHARITY income £378k
• SOCIETY FOR COMPUTERS AND LAW income £414k
• CHARITY DIGITAL TRUST income £2.7m
• THE UK ACADEMY FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS income £41k

Side by side with its peers

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