THE CELLAR SHOP

Registered charity 1157956 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE CELLAR

RECEIVING OF SECOND HAND GOODS TO SELL. FINANCE RAISED THEN GIVEN TO VARIOUS OTHER CHARITIES AND GROUPS HOME AND ABROAD. THOSE GIVEN TOO ARE DECIDED BY THE CELLAR COMMITTE.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES, TO PROVIDE GRANTS TO CHARITIES, ORGANISATIONS, OTHER GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS TO FULFIL EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

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: Cornwall, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts for The Cellar Shop show a surplus of £2,601.24 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted reserves increasing from £2,337.06 to £4,938.30. The charity received £44,059.86 in receipts, primarily from shop sales and donations, and incurred payments of £41,458.62. The balance sheet indicates sufficient cash and bank balances to meet current liabilities.

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 3 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House CE002322

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev GLEN EDWARD CHAPLINchair
• PENELOPE JOY WILLIAMS
• SARAH BEVERLEY CHAPLIN

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

Operates in: 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 THE CELLAR CHURCH.

• THE CELLAR CHURCH income £183k
• THE SICKLE CELL SOCIETY income £1.2m
• THE STOREHOUSE income £404k
• THE CELLAR TRUST income £6.9m
• THE CAPEL ALMSHOUSES income £56k
• THE SALESPEOPLE'S CHARITY income £566k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.