COMMUNITY FURNITURE STORE (YORK) LTD

Registered charity 1114605 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our Charity has three main aims. We primarily assist people in need, chiefly through the provision of donated household goods and new furniture and white goods at affordable prices. We also offer training and work experience placements and employment. We protect the environment by collecting items that would otherwise go to waste. We work with City of York Council and charities to furnish homes.

Objects

a. To relieve generally or individually persons who are in conditions of need, hardship, or distress for reasons including, but not limited to, lack of resources, sudden emergency, ill-health, disability, or other disadvantage.b. To provide by gift, sale, or otherwise, furniture, household goods and other items or services to relieve need, hardship or distress and prevent exclusion from essential services.c. To raise public awareness of, and encourage recycling, reuse, or repurposing of furniture and other household items, including by collecting unwanted items and making them available for others to use.d. To promote and provide life and work skills support and work experience for people who are unemployed or would otherwise benefit from such services.e. To promote any other charitable activity that is consistent with these objects, which shall be selected by the trustees at their absolute discretion.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE, YORKSHIRE.

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 · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: York, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £46,003 for the year, with total charitable income of £686,714 and total expenditure of £640,711. The trustees report that free reserves are currently £126,190, which is below their stated policy target of £160,178. The trustees expect the charity to continue trading for the foreseeable future based on the surplus and improved cash reserves.

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
• 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (90% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• David James Nashchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Antony Robson Jameson-Allen · trustee of 2 other charities
• Joanne Terry Roberts · trustee of 2 other charities
• Miles Edward David Goring · trustee of 2 other charities
• Prakash Mistry · trustee of 2 other charities
• Vera Van Gool · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: City Of York

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COMMUNITY FURNITURE STORE (SELBY) LIMITED.

• COMMUNITY FURNITURE STORE (SELBY) LIMITED income £279k
• COMMUNITY FURNITURE STORE (RYEDALE) LIMITED income £242k
• Bolton Community Furniture Store Limited income £371k
• COMMUNITY FIRST YORKSHIRE LTD income £1.0m
• THE WOKING COMMUNITY FURNITURE PROJECT income £170k
• COMMUNITY SUSTAINABILITY SERVICES income £584k

Side by side with its peers

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