Connect Reading

Registered charity 1113150 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RBCP, READING BUSINESS COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP LIMITED

Connect Reading connects organisations across communities & sectors to benefit Greater Reading. Members share resources & expertise toreduce poverty, inequality & unemploymentadvance educationimprove health & wellbeingpreserve the environment &reduce the impacts of climate change.How? By engaging companies, charities, education & public sector to catalyse collaboration & innovation.

Objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RESIDENTS OF THE GREATER READING AND ADJOINING AREAS ("THE AREA OF BENEFIT"), ARE: TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND UNEMPLOYMENT, ADVANCE EDUCATION, PROTECT HEALTH, PRESERVE THE ENVIRONMENT AND TO FURTHER SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOS0ES WHICH ARE BENEFICIAL TO THE PUBLIC BY PROMOTING THE PRACTICAL INTEREST AND INVOLVEMENT OF COMPANIES, FIRMS, VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS, LOCAL ORGANISATIONS, LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND INDIVIDUALS IN SUCH PURPOSES.

Area of benefit: GREATER READING AND ADJOINING AREAS.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the financial year with unrestricted reserves of £26,149, having generated a net income of £25,870. The trustees report that monthly outgoings were reduced by shifting to remote working and using contractors, which has provided more stability for the following year. The independent examiner confirmed that no matters came to their attention giving cause to believe the accounts were not prepared in accordance with applicable standards.

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.

• 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
• 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 04956922

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.

• HINDS, Danielle — director, appointed 31/01/2025on trustee list
• LE GRAND, Jaclyn Nicole Nicole — director, appointed 31/01/2025not on trustee list
• MACLAREN, Cecilia Linnea — director, appointed 31/01/2025on trustee list
• VEGA, Rodrigo Perez — director, appointed 18/07/2022on trustee list
• PICKFORD, John Charles — director, appointed 05/02/2021on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Danielle Hindschair
• Cecilia Maclaren
• Jaclyn Nicole Le Grand
• John Charles Pickford
• Raimonda Richardson
• Rodrigo Perez Vega

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

Operates in: Bracknell Forest · Reading · West Berkshire · Wokingham

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 THE READER ORGANISATION.

• THE READER ORGANISATION income £4.6m
• READ - THE READING AGENCY income £2.8m
• Libraries Connected income £2.7m
• READING FC COMMUNITY TRUST income £2.4m
• LET'S CONNECT (ENG) LTD income £563k
• Connection Support income £10.1m

Side by side with its peers

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