JACKIE'S DROP IN CENTRE

Registered charity 1157193 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The provision of a drop in centre providing social and recreational facilities, advice and support for adults with learning disabilities.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF ADULTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES, THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS, IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF A DROP IN CENTRE PROVIDING SOCIAL AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES, ADVICE AND SUPPORT

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 · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: North Hertfordshire, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity shop sales provide the majority of funds for operational costs, with unrestricted income of £468,468 against total payments of £160,830. The trustees aim to maintain reserves for three months of operating costs, and the independent examiner reported no matters requiring attention regarding the accounts.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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 handling
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Jackie's Drop-In Centre (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/09/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Harry Lotechair · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Johnston OBE
• Janice Ward
• MRS JACKIE NEALON
• Patricia York
• Peter Alan Wright
• ROSEMARY BAILEY
• Shane Willis
• ZOE THEAKSTON

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE DROP-IN CENTRE (RAWMARSH).

• THE DROP-IN CENTRE (RAWMARSH) income £21k
• ST JAMES' CENTRE (DERBY) income £1.2m
• ALLERDALE DISABILITY ASSOCIATION income £102k
• JACK IN THE BOX PRE-SCHOOL LIMITED income £168k
• KIDS SPACE income £81k
• JACK AND JILL PLAYGROUP (STROOD) income £273k

Side by side with its peers

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