THE HUB YEOVIL COMMUNITY SUPPORT CHARITY

Registered charity 1159016 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE HUB YEOVIL

The Hub is a social enterprise, delivering innovative person-centred and vocational skills-development training for people with learning disabilities and difficulties to enjoy employment and active citizenship. Work-coaches support vulnerable people to thrive and enjoy 'real' working lives in the charity's trading companies and to learn new skills as part of the charity's micro-enterprises.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES/DIFFICULTIES, PHYSICAL DISABILITIES, AND EMOTIONAL AND SOCIAL DIFFICULTIES IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING TRAINING, SKILLS AND SUPPORT THAT WILL ENABLE THEM TO LEAD MEANINGFUL INDEPENDENT LIVES, FULFIL THEIR ASPIRATIONS TO WORK AND MAKE POSITIVE CONTRIBUTIONS TO 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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £13,490 for the year, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted reserves from £160,552 to £147,062. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties identified. Total free reserves at year-end were £83,186, which exceeds the stated minimum reserve target of £60,000.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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
• 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.1 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 (75% 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: 7.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Neil Andrew Downtonchair
• JAMES STUART MCCABE
• James Sebastian Bowes
• Julie Ann Matthews
• Lesley Eveleigh

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

Operates in: Dorset · Somerset

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE COMMUNITY HUB.

• THE COMMUNITY HUB income £141k
• THE HUB, HAZELWELL income £177k
• THE HUB@HENLEY COMMUNITY CENTRE CIO income £64k
• THE LINK COMMUNITY HUB income £197k
• THE HUB AT BRIDGWATER income £35k
• NW7 HUB income £52k

Side by side with its peers

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