IRISH NETWORK STEVENAGE

Registered charity 1149576 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people was are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate in society.

Objects

TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH OR OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS; DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE, DISABILITY, ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT;RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN; POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC HABITABLE STANDARDS; CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY).

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Stevenage, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that Irish Network Stevenage remains in a strong and stable financial position with total funds carried forward of £239,461. The charity secured over £121,000 in external funding and grants, maintaining financial resilience despite increased operating costs. The Board confirms it maintains appropriate financial reserves to ensure effective operation during periods of fluctuating grant income.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 2 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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 — Irish Network Stevenage (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• BRENDAN CLYNCH · trustee of 1 other charity
• Bridget Ann Geraghty · trustee of 1 other charity
• FRANCES SANDFORD · trustee of 1 other charity
• HILDA WARWICK · trustee of 1 other charity
• Louise Donovan
• MARGARET LYONS · trustee of 2 other charities
• MS M KING · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

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 THE STEVENAGE COMMUNITY TRUST.

• THE STEVENAGE COMMUNITY TRUST income £159k
• PRESTON COMMUNITY NETWORK income £26k
• NETWORK OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN FOR BRIGHTON AND HOVE income £210k
• START NETWORK income £52.2m
• The Social Justice Network income £346k
• STEVENAGE FOOTBALL CLUB FOUNDATION LTD income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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