COGS PREPARES 4 LIFE CIO

Registered charity 1154296 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHERRY ORCHARD GARDEN SERVICE, COGS

The goal of the CIO is to develop the capacity and skills of the Learning Disabled members by participation in user led CIO activities aimed at improving their confidence, self-esteem and general well being. Although not a commercial workplace it will adopt some of the inherent attributes of such an environment in that it will conduct itself with a sense of purpose, learning and discipline.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITY OF STAFFORDSHIRE, WALSALL AND STOKE-ON-TRENT IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY AND HELP MEET THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY.

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 · Disability · Environment/conservation/heritage · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity maintained its stated reserves policy target of three months' expenditure, with unrestricted reserves held at £15,681 against a required level of £1,500. The filing confirms that resources are adequate to continue current activities, with no material uncertainties or risks to going concern identified by the independent examiner.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Karen Childchair
• Carl George Ansell
• Colin Millage
• Tracy Karen Blakey
• WILLIAM DAVID GRIFFITHS

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

Operates in: Staffordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• LITERACY VOLUNTEERS income £123k
• RE N-GAGE income £327k
• CREATIVE OPPORTUNITIES income £51k
• ACTIVE4HEALTH income £45k
• GOALS 4 GIRLS CIO income £401k
• MOVEMENT TO WORK income £868k

Side by side with its peers

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