CIRCLES OF SUPPORT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

Registered charity 1122641 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CIRCLES UK

Circles UK is a national charity which facilitates the development of Circles of Support and Accountability ( Circles) and ensures quality standards and safety in this work. Circles are a community-based programme working closely with statutory services, helping known sex offenders live offence-free lives. Circles UK provides training, guidance, applying national standards to member Projects

Objects

(A) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TRAINING, TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE GOOD HEALTH OF PEOPLE WHO ARE LIKELY TO OR WHO HAVE COMMITTED OFFENCES AND THE FAMILIES OF SUCH PERSONS AFFECTED BY SUCH OFFENCES IN ORDER TO ASSIST WITH THE PREVENTION OF SUCH OFFENCES, PARTICULARLY SEXUAL OFFENCES;(B) TO ADVANCE THE PUBLICãS EDUCATION IN THE UNDERSTANDING OF APPROACHES TO PUBLIC PROTECTION AND PREVENTION OF CRIME.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED IN PRACTICE SCOTLAND & NORTHERN IRELAND

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Reading, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity closed the financial year with a budget deficit of £26,138, which the Trustees attribute to a slow start in project delivery rather than operational losses. Per the trustees' report, the organisation successfully met its reserves policy target of retaining three months of operational costs, with total funds carried forward amounting to £546,031.

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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06457347 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• TUSCHICK, Emma Louise — director, appointed 01/01/2026on trustee list
• GLENNIE, Christiane Alexandra Louise — director, appointed 11/08/2023on trustee list
• BAILEY, Simon Robert — director, appointed 23/03/2022not on trustee list
• BARNES, Nigel Geoffrey — director, appointed 19/11/2019on trustee list
• CAROLL, Justine — director, appointed 19/11/2019on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Riana — secretary, appointed 08/11/2016

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christiane Glennie
• Emma Louise Tuschick
• Justine Caroll
• Nigel Geoffrey Barnes
• Parasathi Mullan
• SIMON BAILEY CBE

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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 CIRCLES NETWORK.

• CIRCLES NETWORK income £3.0m
• Sister Circle income £953k
• CIRCLES SOUTH WEST income £548k
• THE CIRCLE OF WOMEN income £298k
• CLINKS income £1.1m
• CITIZENS UK CHARITY income £12.0m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.