RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY RESOURCE TRUST

Registered charity 1122566 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To establish and run a charity which manages a unique community resource centre, which is sustainable, flexible and able to adapt and evolve with the community and clients it serves, a first class venue,providing facilities for education, recreation and leisure time which will enhance the life and wellbeing of the people of Kent, Gravesham and in particular the Riverside Ward in Gravesend

Objects

TO SUPPORT THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE COUNTY OF KENT PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE INHABITANTS OF RIVERSIDE WARD IN THE BOROUGH OF GRAVESHAM AND THE WIDER GRAVESHAM AREA ("THE AREA OF BENEFIT") WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF AGE, GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, NATIONALITY, ETHNIC OR NATIONAL ORIGINS, RACE, COLOUR, MARITAL STATUS, DISABILITY, POLITICAL OR RELIGIOUS BELIEFS BYASSOCIATING THE LOCAL STATUTORY AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS, COMMUNITY GROUPS AND INHABITANTS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, PRESERVE GOOD HEALTH AND RELIEVE POVERTY, DISTRESS OR SICKNESSPROVIDING FACILITIES FOR EDUCATION, RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION AND TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED WITH THE OBJECTS OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFITADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE ARTSESTABLISHING OR SECURING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTRE AND TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE THE SAME (WHETHER ALONE OR IN CO-OPERATION WITH ANY OTHER PERSON OR BODY) IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE OBJECTS

Area of benefit: COUNTY OF KENT PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE INHABITANTS OF RIVERSIDE WARD IN THE BOROUGH OF GRAVESHAM AND THE WIDER GRAVESHAM AREA

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net deficit of £4,657 for the year ended 31st March 2025, with total income of £160,244 against expenditure of £164,901. Per the trustees' report, the charity's reserves policy is to hold sufficient funds to cover at least six months of operating costs, and unrestricted reserves stood at £83,071. The trustees acknowledge that monitoring price increases for supplies and utilities remains an ongoing concern for the trust's financial stability.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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
• Volunteer management

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID MEAD
• Elizabeth Robinson
• PATRICIA JEFFORD FCIEH FRSH
• Robert William Suckling

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FERRYSIDE SOCIAL ENTERPRISE GROUP.

• FERRYSIDE SOCIAL ENTERPRISE GROUP income £105k
• DEESIDE COMMUNITY TRUST income £599k
• RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION LIMITED income £143k
• E L M V SHADWELL BASIN PROJECT income £311k
• RIVERSIDE ESTUARY LIMITED income £5.6m
• KENTISH TOWN CITY FARM LIMITED income £389k

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