NEVER SUCH INNOCENCE

Registered charity 1156148 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as N/A

Never Such Innocence is an education project giving children and young people a voice on conflict through poetry, art, music and speech-writing ensuring a cultural legacy.

Objects

TO SUPPORT SUCH GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DEEM BIT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY SUPPORTING THE CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES OF THE FOLLOWING ORGANISATIONS:- GIVE US TIME, COMBAT STRESS, STEP SHORT, VETERANS AID AND LEGACY.

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 · Education/training · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £110,203 at the end of the financial year, representing a surplus of £55,629. The trustees consider these reserves appropriate and sufficient to support continuing operations for a further 6–12 months, citing committed incoming resources. The filing confirms no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• 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

• Lucy Frenchchair
• ASIM HAFIV
• Christopher Palmer OBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Donald Boyd
• JASLEEN SINGH
• Jane Franses
• Lieutenant Colonel PETER POOLE
• SIMON LINNETT · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Belgium · Canada · Greece · New Zealand · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with STAND AGAINST VIOLENCE.

• STAND AGAINST VIOLENCE income £132k
• SOUNDS OF INTENT income £31k
• AID INFINITY income £72k
• YOUTH IN ACTION FOUNDATION income £60k
• COMBATING POVERTY THROUGH EDUCATION income £5k
• NAFFERTON UNDER FIVES income £177k

Side by side with its peers

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