READING PRIDE

Registered charity 1119891 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote equality and diversity, advance education and eliminate particularly in relation to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and associated communities [LGBT Plus], in particular but not exclusively within Reading and The Thames Valley. In particularly by promoting and staging an annual festival and making grants and/or donations to other charitable and voluntary organisations.

Objects

TO PROMOTE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY, ADVANCE EDUCATION AND ELIMINATE DISCRIMINATION IN RELATION TO GAY, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER (LGBT PEOPLE, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THOSE RESIDENT IN READING AND THE THAMES VALLEY (THE "AREA OF BENEFIT") FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY RAISING AWARENESS IN ISSUES AFFECTING SAID PERSONS IN PARTICULAR BY PROMOTING AND STAGING AN ANNUAL LGBT FESTIVAL AND MAKING GRANTS AND/OR DONATIONS TO OTHER CHARITABLE AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS WITH THE OBJECT OF DEVELOPING AN ENVIRONMENT IN FAVOUR OF LGBT EQUALITY BY PROVIDING INFORMATION, ADVICE AND SUPPORT.

Area of benefit: READING AND THE THAMES VALLEY

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

Causes: Education/training · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net loss of £14,757 for the year, resulting in a depletion of unrestricted reserves from £39,046 to £24,290. The Treasurer's report attributes this to reduced sponsorship income and rising costs, noting that the charity has no debt and maintains requisite reserves. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to attention during the examination of the accounts.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Reading Pride UK (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW TIMOTHY ADAMS
• Kirsten Ruth Bayes
• SARAH HACKER
• Sophia James

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Oxfordshire · Reading · West Berkshire · Windsor And Maidenhead

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LGB ALLIANCE.

• LGB ALLIANCE income £383k
• WARWICKSHIRE PRIDE income £118k
• BRISTOL PRIDE income £756k
• BOURNE FREE income £139k
• HART GABLES income £139k
• CARDIFF WALES LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER MARDI GRAS income £698k

Side by side with its peers

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