FRIENDS IN NEED

Registered charity 1141960 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

# Summer holiday trips for local low income families with children who cannot afford holidays away.# Small grants.# Plan to set up Swimming project for local disadvantaged children who cannot access public swimming and cannot swim.

Objects

1. TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH; A) THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES PROVIDED IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE, FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE THE NEED FOR SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, RACE, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMICAL CIRCUMSTANCES, DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE. B) PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS.2. THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, EITHER GENERALLY OF INDIVIDUALLY, OF PEOPLE LIVING IN HACKNEY OR HARRINGEY, BY MAKING GRANTS OF MONEY FOR PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR ITEMS, SERVICES OR FACILITIES. 3. THE FURTHERANCE OF SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: 1 HACKNEY2 HARINGEY

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Amateur Sport · Recreation · Other Charitable Purposes · Get email alerts

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Policies the charity declares

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• Complaints handling
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• SARAH REITZERchair
• E HIRSCH · trustee of 1 other charity
• HENRIED KESSELMAN
• MALKE KLEIN · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Hackney · Haringey

Income and spending

Government & lottery funding

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