THE HALLIWELL BEFRIENDING SERVICE

Registered charity 1152634 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as H B S

Providing a befriending service to vulnerable elderly people within the area covered by the service. Also providing luncheon gatherings on a fortnightly basis and a coffee morning drop in on a weekly basis. This encourages service users to come out into the community and enriches their quality of life, by making new friends and sharing pastimes, knowledge, etc.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF AGE, ILL HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE BY THE PROVISION OF A BEFRIENDING SERVICE

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 · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Recreation · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £8,829 for the year, with unrestricted cash reserves of £15,326. The trustees note uncertainty regarding future funding, specifically awaiting confirmation of continued council support and nearing the end of a National Lottery grant.

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 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 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
• 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 31/03/2021 (received 18/03/2022, 46 days after the 31/01/2022 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.

Register events

• Transferred assets to another charity (02/10/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Operates in: Bolton

Income and spending

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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 SUFFOLK BEFRIENDING SCHEME FOR PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES.

• SUFFOLK BEFRIENDING SCHEME FOR PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES income £437k
• HENFIELD AND DISTRICT SELF HELP GROUP income £27k
• THE SANDWELL COMMUNITY CARING TRUST income £18.1m
• HAYLE DAY CARE CENTRE TRUST COMMITTEE income £354k
• DARWEN OLD PEOPLES WELFARE ASSOCIATION income £254k
• HIGH HOPES FOR HALLIWELL-BEING income £82k

Side by side with its peers

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