FAIR SHARES GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Registered charity 1110418 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FAIR SHARES

We run two community based time banks which meet everyday needs through sharing time, skills and opportunities. Participants help out in their local community, using their skills to provide services for others. Every hour participating earns one credit that can be used to access support from other participants.We also run timebanking and Peer maths mentoring in prisons.

Objects

(I) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS FOR THE PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE;(II) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THE COMMUNITY BY MEANS OF ENCOURAGING AND PROMOTING THE PRACTICE OF 'FAIR SHARES' WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM, PARTICULARLY FOR THOSE PERSONS WHO ARE DISADVANTAGED AND VULNERABLE, SUCH AS YOUNG PERSONS, THE AGED AND THE UNEMPLOYED, AND WHO ARE IN NEED OF SUCH COMMUNITY INITIATIVES AND SUPPORT..

Area of benefit: THE UNITED KINGDOM IN PARTICULAR GLOUCESTERSHIRE.

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Gloucester, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £249,943 from £241,910 in the prior year, with unrestricted reserves standing at £101,971. Per the trustees' report, these reserves are equivalent to between four to six months of operating expenditure, which exceeds the charity's stated policy target of three to six months. The charity is not prepared on a going-concern basis of doubt, as trustees confirm adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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

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 04938680

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Fair Shares (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.

• TYLER, Kerri Anna — director, appointed 15/01/2026on trustee list
• STEELE, Catherine Ann, Professor — director, appointed 19/05/2025on trustee list
• PALMER, Robert Ian — director, appointed 25/11/2024on trustee list
• SMITH, Maureen Zara — director, appointed 22/03/2021on trustee list
• LEWIS, James Robert — director, appointed 23/11/2020on trustee list
• GIFFORD, Patricia Rose — director, appointed 29/11/2017on trustee list
• CIGMAN, Julie — director, appointed 25/04/2017on trustee list
• CATHLES, Alison Mary — director, appointed 20/02/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• JULIE CIGMANchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alison Cathles
• James Robert Lewis
• Kerri Anna Tyler
• Maureen Zara Smith
• Patricia Rose Gifford
• Professor Catherine Ann Steele
• Robert Ian Palmer

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire · South Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE SOCIETY.

• THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE SOCIETY income £160k
• INCLUSION GLOUCESTERSHIRE income £1.0m
• GL COMMUNITIES income £623k
• THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE ASSOCIATION FOR DISABILITY income £248k
• ACTIVE GLOUCESTERSHIRE income £1.2m
• COUNTY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £583k

Side by side with its peers

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