FRIENDSHIP AT HOME

Registered charity 1160062 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Friendship at Home (FAH) CIO started in September 2006, The aim of our organisation is to help combat isolation and loneliness across NEL and to improve older people?s quality of life. We offer a range of support including: information and advice, one to one and telephone befriending; social and exercise clubs, dementia support and support after hospital discharge.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF OLDER PEOPLE AND THOSE OVER 18 AFFECTED BY ISOLATION, LIVING IN THE BOROUGH OF NORTH EAST LINCOLNSHIRE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA BY SUCH MEANS AS ARE RECOGNISED AS CHARITABLE WITHIN THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DETERMINE AND PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:1. THE PROVISION OF A BEFRIENDING AND VISITING SERVICE2. THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, INFORMATION AND SUPPORT FOR SUCH PERSONS AND THEIR CARERS; AND3. THE TRAINING OF VOLUNTEERS.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net income of £70,975 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total funds carried forward of £415,937. The trustees report that unrestricted free reserves stood at £237,217, which exceeds their stated policy target of approximately three months of unrestricted charitable expenditure. The financial review indicates prudent management and continued growth in service delivery despite rising demand.

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 4 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
• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Friendship at Home (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/07/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/10/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANN MAGGS MBE · trustee of 2 other charities
• JUDAH NAVEEN
• Jill Atkinson
• Julie Rigby
• MICHAEL BATESON
• Michael Swales
• RAY OXBY

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

Operates in: North East Lincolnshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with B:FRIEND.

• B:FRIEND income £413k
• FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY income £22.0m
• HOME-START KERNOW income £528k
• FRIENDS FIRST income £132k
• FRIENDS ACTION NORTH EAST income £180k
• BEFRIENDED income £155k

Side by side with its peers

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