THE MAYPOLE PROJECT

Registered charity 1120163 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity provides counselling and inclusive activities to children and young people who are have complex medical needs/disabilities across the UK but focussed in South East London.The charity also provides support services: consultancy, training, supervision and counselling to allied professionals

Objects

1) THE RELIEF, PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL WELL BEING OF INDIVIDUALS, PREDOMINANTLY BUT NOT ENTIRELY, CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE UNDER 25 SUFFERING FROM LIFE THREATENING OR LIFE SHORTENING ILLNESSES AND THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS WHO ARE AFFECTED BY SUCH SUFFERING AND BEREAVEMENT;2) THE EDUCATION, SUPPORT AND PRESERVATION OF THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL WELL-BEING OF CARERS AND PROFESSIONALS WORKING WITH LOSS AND BEREAVEMENT; AND3) THE EDUCATION OR THE GENERAL PUBLIC ABOUT THE EMOTIONAL SUPPORT AVAILABLE AND PROVIDED TO THOSE SUFFERING AND AFFECTED BY LIFE THREATENING OR LIFE SHORTENING ILLNESSES AND IN ALL ASPECTS REGARDING BEREAVEMENT AND LIFE THREATENING OR LIFE SHORTENING ILLNESSES.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE GREATER LONDON AND SOUTH EAST ENGLAND (LEWISHAM, BROMLEY, CROYDON, BEXLEY, LAMBETH AND SOUTHWARK).

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bromley, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £30,450 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds. Free reserves stood at £138,933, which the trustees note is below their policy target of one year's operating costs, though they remain committed to rebuilding 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 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/05/2023 (received 10/04/2024, 10 days after the 31/03/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Maypole Project (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan James Eldridge
• Bundna Jaswal
• Christopher John Story
• David William Randolph Morrison
• Debra Ann Parker
• Gill Robinson

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MAYFIELD FELLOWSHIP.

• MAYFIELD FELLOWSHIP income £2.5m
• LAYOLE income £28k
• MAKING A DIFFERENCE income £30k
• MINDAPPLES income £44k
• MAKING MIRACLES income £301k
• MYSMALLHELP income £26k

Side by side with its peers

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