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Registered charity 1149627 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · filing overdue (register status)

Our Charity is set up to relieve need, hardship or distress by the provision of essential items to those in need. Including support for volunteering, education, training and health & wellbeing, as appropriate. Focussing on residents within North Solihull and neighbouring areas.

Objects

TO RELIEVE NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS BY THE PROVISION OF CLOTHING, TOYS, BOOKS, FURNITURE AND OTHER HOUSEHOLD ACCESSORIES TO THOSE IN NEED, IN PARTICULAR TO THOSE IN THE AREA OF SMITHS WOOD.TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, TRAINING OR RETRAINING, PARTICULARLY AMONG UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE, AND PROVIDING UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE WITH WORK EXPERIENCE IN THE AREA OF SMITHS WOOD.TO ADVANCE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN THE AREA OF SMITHS WOOD.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Solihull, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £19,412 against a policy target of maintaining 3 to 6 months of running costs, which the trustees believe is covered. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £5,734, with total unrestricted and restricted funds carrying forward at £77,383. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention regarding the accounts.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/11/2024 (received 18/11/2025, 49 days after the 30/09/2025 due date).

1 further annual return is past its due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

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

• Lisa Harrison
• Mrs M Carless · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Solihull

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MISHON.

• MISHON income £255k
• SOLIHULL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH TRUST income £109k
• NORMALYN CHARITABLE TRUST income £36k
• SOLIHULL SOCIETY OF ARTS income £44k
• AID INFINITY income £72k
• VOLUNTARY SECTOR CENTRES income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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