GL COMMUNITIES

Registered charity 1134656 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We deliver services in areas of deprivation in Gloucestershire. Current activities : Money Advice Services, General welfare benefits advice, Community education, Learning disability well-being centre, and programmes that increase employability by learning practical skills i.e. landscaping, carpentry, painting etc. We accept volunteers in service areas above to enhance skills.

Objects

A) The relief of persons resident in Gloucester and other Boroughs within the County of Gloucestershire in need, hardship and distress, including the elderly and the disabled, by providing or assisting in the provision ofI) advice and information regarding their legal entitlements particularly (but not exclusively) state benefits, housing, consumer matters and debt, andII) facilities and services to relieve persons suffering from substance addiction together with the families of such personsB) The advancement of education amongst persons resident within the area of benefitC) To provide or assist in the provision of facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation or other leisure time occupation of individuals who have need of such facilities by reason of their youth, age infirmity or disability, financial hardship or social circumstances with the object of improving their conditions of life

Area of benefit: THE CITY OF GLOUCESTER AND SURROUNDING AREA,

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Gloucester, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income rose to £623,290, resulting in a positive net movement in funds of £71,555. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves grew to £107,201, exceeding the stated policy target of three months of core operating expenditure.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• Investment
• 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)

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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (82% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALBERT MARK GARDINER · trustee of 4 other charities
• Elizabeth Pullin
• JASON DUNSFORD
• Liam John Kelch
• Sophie Kay Wootton-Lee

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GL11 COMMUNITY PROJECT.

• GL11 COMMUNITY PROJECT income £1.0m
• GLOUCESTERSHIRE RURAL COMMUNITY COUNCIL income £1.3m
• ST GEORGE'S LUPSET LTD income £2.0m
• INCLUSION GLOUCESTERSHIRE income £1.0m
• GLOUCESTERSHIRE COUNSELLING SERVICE income £917k
• ACTIVE GLOUCESTERSHIRE income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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