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.
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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
Largest income source: Grants (67% of income)
“Grants 25,000 126,592 151,592 10,000 191,721 201,721” — page 13
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £4k; policy: cover statutory redundancy costs and contractual obligations)
“A transfer of £30,000 (2024: £20,000) from designated reserve funds to general unrestricted reserve funds was made in the period following the decision that the company be wound up.” — page 21
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Going concern: noted by the trustees or auditor
“In view of the intention to strike off the company in the forthcoming accounting period, these financial statements are prepared on the basis that the company was not carrying on business as a going concern.” — page 11
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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.
Corporate structure
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.
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Devon
Income and spending
Common questions
Is South Hams Community Action financially healthy?
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. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.
Who funds South Hams Community Action?
Funders whose own accounts filings name South Hams Community Action as a grant recipient include THE CLARE MILNE TRUST, MISSES BARRIE CHARITABLE TRUST.
Known funders
Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.
Government & lottery funding
Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).
Funders of similar charities
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