SOUTH HAMS COMMUNITY ACTION

Registered charity 1124273 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SOUTH HAMS COMMUNITY & VOLUNTARY SERVICES

To promote any charitable purposes for the benefit of the community in the local government district of South Hams and to bring together in council representatives of the voluntary organisations and statutory authorities within the area of benefit.

Objects

3. THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) ARETO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE LOCALGOVERNMENT DISTRICT OF SOUTH HAMS (HEREINAFTER CALLED "THE AREA OF BENEFIT") AND,IN PARTICULAR, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEFOF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS, AND IN FURTHERANCE OF THE SAID PURPOSES, BUTNOT FURTHER OR OTHERWISE, TO PROMOTE AND ORGANISE CO-OPERATION IN THEACHIEVEMENT OF THE SAME AND TO THAT END TO BRING TOGETHER IN COUNCILREPRESENTATIVES OF THE VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND STATUTORY AUTHORITIES WITHIN THEAREA OF BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, SOUTH HAMS DEVON

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 · Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is ceasing operations and intends to be struck off, with financial statements prepared on a non-going concern basis. Per the trustees' report, the charity incurred a deficit of £80,940 for the period and has exhausted its unrestricted reserves, leaving a general unrestricted fund balance of £3,971.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → going-concern doubt noted (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06215893

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.

• ABBEY, Jane — director, appointed 30/04/2024on trustee list
• PRICE, Barbara Anne — director, appointed 14/03/2023on trustee list
• PETERS, Timothy — director, appointed 07/02/2017on trustee list
• TRIGGER, David James — director, appointed 11/09/2007on trustee list
• WESLEY, Jackie — secretary, appointed 01/08/2023

Official officers record.

Register events

• Transferred assets to another charity (20/10/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Transferred assets to another charity (20/10/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Transferred assets to another charity (20/10/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Transferred assets to another charity (20/10/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Operates in: Devon

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 STOKE HAMMOND COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION.

• STOKE HAMMOND COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £27k
• SOUTHMEAD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £41k
• SOUTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LIMITED income £205k
• COMMUNITY SOUTHWARK income £1.4m
• VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY ACTION SUNDERLAND income £49k
• THE SHM FOUNDATION income £1.0m

Side by side with its peers

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