FOUNDATION FOR ACTIVE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Registered charity 1156904 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FACE

Provision of a venue and service for youth work and award schemes, targeting based on age or mental or physical ability. Provision of a venue and service for community events, courses, social and/or employment skills. Work with other voluntary or educational organisations through the use of employees and volunteers of the organisation operating sessions and mentoring, for example at local schools.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £130,214 for the year, driven largely by a two-year Arley Trust grant recognized in full in the current period. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £97,780, which is below the stated policy target of £147,500 (three months of running costs). The trustees intend to build reserves back to the policy level over the next 18 months.

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — FACE (Foundation for Active Community Engagement) (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/11/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rosemary Greenwoodchair
• Billy Davis
• Christopher Robert Lewis
• David William Matthews
• India King
• Rev Dr Simon Christopher Edwards · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Hilary Cooke · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert Sharp

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

Operates in: Bristol City · South Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).