RIVERBANK TRUST

Registered charity 1143758 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity befriends, supports and restores vulnerable women by:running weekly Mothers and Toddlers groups;working with disadvantaged children, mostly from single parent families;supplying new mothers with care packages; andproviding support in several other practical areas.

Objects

IN THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST TO PROVIDE SUPPORT AND CARE FOR VULNERABLE WOMEN AND OTHER NEEDY PEOPLE, IN PARTICULAR IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND-UPON-THAMES OR ELSEWHERE AT THE TRUSTEES' DISCRETION.

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 · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Richmond upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that net free reserves were £27,238, which is lower than the trustees' stated policy target of approximately two months' budgeted routine expenditure (£44,000). The trustees acknowledge this shortfall but note that fundraising efforts suggest an anticipated rise in reserves in the forthcoming period.

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.

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)

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 08/03/2024, 37 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Bettina Chen
• CATRIONA JOHNSTON MA
• Geraldine Stride
• Katie Madanat
• Kayleigh Butler
• MARK DANIEL JOHNSTON
• Peter Douglas Reekie

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

Operates in: Richmond Upon Thames

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 WOMEN’S HEALTH MATTERS.

• WOMEN’S HEALTH MATTERS income £850k
• RIVER CHURCH (ORPINGTON) income £179k
• KEEPING ABREAST income £171k
• ROWLEY TRUST income £43k
• THE FRESHWATER FOUNDATION income £27k
• A CALL TO BUSINESS income £161k

Side by side with its peers

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