RUGBY BAREBOARDS TRUST

Registered charity 1108493 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity's core activity is the collection of donated furniture and all other household goods and the supplying of same to people in need in the local area. It also recycles the household products and materials. To support the charity's work it also has a charity shop selling/recycling furniture and all other household goods.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AMONG PERSONS LIVING IN RUGBY AND ITS ENVIRONS BY MEANS OF THE COLLECTION, RENOVATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF FURNITURE, CARPETS, CURTAINS AND OTHER HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS, IN ANY WAY THAT THE CHARITY'S EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE SHALL THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: WARWICKSHIRE

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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Rugby, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £12,849 for the year, with total income falling to £37,271 from £41,601 in the prior period. Despite the deficit, unrestricted reserves stood at £148,467, which the trustees confirm is maintained within their stated policy target of three to six months' expenditure. The trustees note active steps to reduce costs and strengthen the financial position following the year end.

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
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05217928

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.

• FORRESTAL, Barry Eric — director, appointed 14/04/2026on trustee list
• GRIFFITHS, Laura — director, appointed 14/04/2026on trustee list
• FOWLER, Mike — director, appointed 11/08/2025not on trustee list
• DOBINSON, Shan Erica — director, appointed 14/04/2025on trustee list
• FINCH, Steven Henry — director, appointed 19/06/2024on trustee list
• LEWIS, William Herbert — director, appointed 01/02/2011on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Barry Eric Forrestal
• Laura Griffiths
• Michael Fowler
• Shan Dobinson · trustee of 3 other charities
• WILLIAM HERBERT LEWIS · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Northamptonshire · Warwickshire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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