THE BREN PROJECT

Registered charity 1111644 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing supported employment opportunities for adults and young people with learning disabilities and autism.

Objects

TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THOSE MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC LIVING IN CHESHIRE AND STAFFORDSHIRE WHO HAVE DISABILITIES, OR WHO ARE AT A SOCIAL DISADVANTAGE, BY GIVING AN OPPORTUNITY FOR SUPPORTED TRAINING, WORK EXPERIENCE AND EMPLOYMENT. SO THAT SUCH PERSONS CAN DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES AND AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY, IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

Area of benefit: CHESHIRE AND STAFFORDSHIRE

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cheshire West and Chester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated £269,161 in income against £271,074 in expenditure, resulting in a small net deficit for the year. However, unrestricted reserves stood at £340,186, which the trustees confirm is in line with their policy of maintaining at least six months of running costs. The trustees expressed a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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 05551999 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Bren Project (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.

• MASON, Ian George — director, appointed 09/06/2026on trustee list
• PIPER, Debra Gail — director, appointed 13/07/2023on trustee list
• SMITH, Roy Rodger Daniel — director, appointed 13/05/2022on trustee list
• HARRINGTON, Brendan — director, appointed 15/04/2020on trustee list
• ATKINSON, David John Doughton — director, appointed 09/01/2018on trustee list
• SHOTTON, Michael Ian — director, appointed 04/02/2014on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Brendan Edward John Harringtonchair
• David Atkinson
• Debra Piper
• Ian Mason · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ian Michael Shotton
• Roy Smith

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Cheshire West & Chester

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MORE EDUCATION.

• MORE EDUCATION income £531k
• THE BROTHERS TRUST income £597k
• MERTON MENCAP income £767k
• THE BRIDGE GROUP income £435k
• THE IRON BRIDGE TRUST income £380k
• THE OPENWORK FOUNDATION income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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