LINCOLNSHIRE RURAL SUPPORT NETWORK

Registered charity 1137678 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LRSN

The Charity organises a group of volunteers and staff to give support to individuals who are finding difficulty in coping with stressful situations in rural lincolnshire, provides a Health Screening service in Louth and Newark livestock markets and operates a telephone helpline.

Objects

TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND TO PROMOTE GOOD PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH, PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, IN THE RURAL COMMUNITY OF LINCOLNSHIRE AND TO PROVIDE EDUCATION, INFORMATION, GUIDANCE AND TRAINING FOR PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES.

Area of benefit: LINCOLNSHIRE

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: West Lindsey, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net incoming resource of £146,106 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted funds of £538,212. The trustees' reserves policy targets a buffer equivalent to six months of running costs, and the current unrestricted reserves appear sufficient to meet this target given the cash position and incoming resources. The accounts were subject to independent examination rather than audit, with no material uncertainties or governance issues disclosed.

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.

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
• Investing charity funds 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)

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Lincolnshire Rural Support Network (matched by registered charity number).

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~14.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (48% 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: 1.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/11/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Matthew James Phillipschair
• Alexander Godfrey
• Alison Clare Bottom
• Charles Michael Rayner Holt BscDipFMMB
• Jonathan Brian Tanner
• Paul William Barnes
• THE REV CANON ALAN JOHN ROBSON
• Thomas Joseph Hickingbottom

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

Operates in: Lincolnshire · Nottinghamshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SHROPSHIRE RURAL SUPPORT.

• SHROPSHIRE RURAL SUPPORT income £37k
• LINCOLNSHIRE COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £1.7m
• LINCOLNSHIRE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICE NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUNDS income £137k
• THE LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND COUNTY NURSING ASSOCIATION income £58k
• LINCOLNSHIRE INTEGRATED VOLUNTARY EMERGENCY SERVICE income £4.0m
• LINCOLNSHIRE RAPE CRISIS income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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