RICHMOND FURNITURE SCHEME

Registered charity 1133019 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We operate in and around Richmond Borough. We collect donated furniture, repairing, cleaning, displaying and selling it at low prices to people in need and at higher prices to the general public. We offer basic training and work experience in carpentry and property maintenance to disadvantaged young people and volunteering experience to others including the unemployed

Objects

A) PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF POVERTY BY SUPPLYING DONATED FURNITURE AND HOUSEHOLDGOODS AT MINIMAL COST TO PEOPLE IN NEED B) THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT BY ENCOURAGINGREUSE/RECYCLING OF DONATED FURNITURE AND HOUSEHOLD GOODSC) THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN SUCH WAYS AS MAY BETHOUGHT FIT, INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF TRAINING, EMPLOYMENT, WORK EXPERIENCEAND VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL

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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Richmond upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £8,487 for the year, a significant improvement from the previous year's £15,258 deficit, despite total expenditure rising to £389,541. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted liquid reserves stand at £124,069, which represents 3.8 months of budgeted expenditure, falling within the stated policy target of three to six months. The charity maintains adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2025) to "within" (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 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
• Paying staff
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Richmond Furniture Scheme (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• John Alexander Stephenchair
• Aoife Herr
• Derek Papworth
• Helen Higgins
• Helen Pugh
• Mithu Sengupta
• Nicola Anson
• Ryan Andrew Richardson · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COUNTY DURHAM FURNITURE HELP SCHEME.

• COUNTY DURHAM FURNITURE HELP SCHEME income £859k
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• HOME FURNITURE SERVICES TRUST income £207k
• IPSWICH FURNITURE PROJECT income £622k
• RERUN FURNITURE SERVICE LTD income £97k
• BARNET REUSE CENTRE LIMITED income £474k

Side by side with its peers

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