CANTERBURY UMBRELLA

Registered charity 1153745 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Supplying facilities for recreation, education, refreshment, companionship and general care for people with mental or physical disability, sickness or disorder.

Objects

TO PROMOTE WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR RACE, OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF CANTERBURY, KENT AND THE NEIGHBOURING TOWNS, VILLAGES AND NEIGHBOURHOOD (THE AREA OF BENEFIT) AND WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, IN PARTICULAR. 1. THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE WITH MENTAL OR PHYSICAL SICKNESS, DISABILITY OR DISORDER;2. THE RELIEF OF THE AGED; 3. THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH;4. TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

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

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Registered contact address: Canterbury, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £73,061 for the year, reducing total funds to £201,005. The trustees report that reserves are below their stated policy target of £30,000 cash reserve, noting that unrestricted funds are £25,970. Despite the deficit, the trustees consider there are sufficient funds to operate into 2027 and beyond.

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
• 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.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/01/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Caroline Clarke
• DAVID JOHN BAXTER · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Geoffrey Milham
• Michael Paul Taylor
• Thelma Anne Taylor
• diana margaret jackson

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

Operates in: Kent

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 UMBRELLA DERBY & DERBYSHIRE.

• UMBRELLA DERBY & DERBYSHIRE income £1.1m
• WYE VALLEY NHS TRUST UMBRELLA CHARITY income £566k
• COVENTRY RESOURCE CENTRE FOR THE BLIND income £381k
• KYTES income £70k
• UMBRELLA CYMRU income £222k
• CEREBRA - FOR BRAIN INJURED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE income £2.8m

Side by side with its peers

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