NEAR NEIGHBOURS

Registered charity 1142426 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Near Neighbours programme builds social integration by bringing people together in religiously and ethnically diverse communities, creating friendships, building relationships of trust and helping people to transform their neighbourhoods together. Near Neighbours works in locations in England.

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity was dissolved and its activities merged into its parent charity, Church Urban Fund, with all assets and liabilities transferred on 31 December 2025. Consequently, the financial statements were prepared on a basis other than going concern, resulting in a net expenditure of £228k and zero funds carried forward. The charity had no staff and relied on key management personnel from the parent organization.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Forvis Mazars LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → not a going concern (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Church Urban Fund — “Church Urban Fund, through its Near Neighbours programme, administers the Windrush Day Grant Scheme on behalf of the Ministry of Housing, Co…” (source page)
• Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government — “Church Urban Fund, through its Near Neighbours programme, administers the Windrush Day Grant Scheme on behalf of the Ministry of Housing, Co…” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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

• Catriona Anne Elizabeth Robertson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Katherine Hodkinson
• Rev Canon Jenny Ramsden · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Jessica Beatrice Foster
• Rev Rogers Morgan Govender

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

Operates in: Throughout England

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).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NEPHRA GOOD NEIGHBOURS CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION.

• NEPHRA GOOD NEIGHBOURS CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION income £159k
• NEIGHBOURS IN POPLAR income £320k
• NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH NETWORK income £770k
• NEW NEIGHBOURS TOGETHER CIO income £190k
• Transform NE income £241k
• GOOD NEIGHBOURS UK income £286k

Side by side with its peers

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