DEPTFORD METHODIST MISSION DISABLED PEOPLE'S CONTACT

Registered charity 1123390 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We offer good food, good fellowship, help and support to persons in the community, who are elderly, solitary, sick or who have a disability. We are not just a day centre, we are a place where people of all ages can feel they have something to offer and that life has not passed them by. In addition we are a place where volunteers, students and the elderly can meet and interact. Charity Shop also.

Objects

TO RELIEVE PERSONS IN THE COMMUNITY WHO ARE ELDERLY, SOLITARY, SICK OR WHO HAVE A DISABILITY BY PROVIDING MATERIAL, SOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL FACILITIES AND DOING ALL SUCH THINGS AS ARE NECESSARY FOR THE ATTAINMENT OF THESE OBJECTS

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED IN PRACTICE GREENWICH, LEWISHAM AND SOUTHWARK

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £23,513 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted reserves of £82,530. The trustees consider the charity to be a going concern with sufficient resources to maintain operations for the foreseeable future. However, the risk review notes that the most significant risk is the potential inability to obtain required funding to keep the Day Centre open.

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
• 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

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The National Lottery Community Fund — “Deptford Methodist Mission Disabled People’s Contact is proudly supported by The National Lottery Community Fund” (source page)

Trustees · trustee networks

• IAN PHILIP STEWARTchair
• Lea Andrews
• Lynne Ramsay

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

Operates in: Greenwich · Lewisham · Southwark

Income and spending

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