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Registered charity 1141411 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

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Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £2,405 for the year ended 30 June 2025, resulting in total net assets of £84,381. The trustees' report indicates that the charity aims to keep total reserves between £40,000 and £50,000, but the actual unrestricted reserves were £63,450. The charity continues to operate as a going concern despite noting that demand for services outstrips available resources.

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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Public Health England — “1) Public Health England” (source page)
• Severn Trent Community Fund — “2) Severn Trent Community Fund” (source page)
• Bestwood and Bulwell Foodbank — “3) Bestwood and Bulwell Foodbank” (source page)
• Nottingham East and West Foodbank — “4) Nottingham East and West Foodbank” (source page)
• Bulwell and Top Valley Primary Care Network — “5) Bulwell and Top Valley Primary Care Network” (source page)
• Crabtree Farm Community Centre — “6) Crabtree Farm Community Centre” (source page)
• British Gas Energy Trust — “7) British Gas Energy Trust” (source page)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/01/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Brian Grocock
• Chris Hooper · trustee of 1 other charity
• Izabella Robak
• Jay Hayes
• Ochanya Majesty Ochigbo

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

Operates in: Nottingham City

Income and spending

Common questions

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).