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Registered charity 1110676 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

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Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN DUNSTABLE AND SURROUNDING AREA ("THE AREA OF BENEFIT") BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS.

Area of benefit: DUNSTABLE AND SURROUNDING AREA.

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

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made a surplus of £6,910 for the year ended 31 March 2026, with total incoming resources of £230,018 and total resources expended of £223,108. Per the trustees' report, total reserves stood at £232,427, which the trustees aim to maintain at a level covering at least six months' operations.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

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.

• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05408107

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.

• HOCKEY, Charles Frederick — director, appointed 04/06/2026on trustee list
• KLEANTHOUS, Trudi — director, appointed 04/06/2026on trustee list
• ITIOLA, Caroline — director, appointed 17/10/2025on trustee list
• BRENNAN, Carol — director, appointed 23/05/2024on trustee list
• WATSON, Jill — director, appointed 02/12/2022on trustee list
• KANE, John Robert — director, appointed 10/12/2020on trustee list
• SYRED, Peter James — director, appointed 07/05/2020on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• John Kanechair
• Carol Brennan
• Caroline Itiola
• Charles Hockey
• Ian Coulter
• Jill Watson
• Peter Syred
• Trudi Kleanthous · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Central Bedfordshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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