THE DROP IN BEREAVEMENT CENTRE

Registered charity 1161526 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Face2Face, Video and Telephone Bereavement Counselling, Peer Support Group Counselling, Preliminary family counselling, Health Well Being Project Activities, Over 60's mobility exercise classes, Yoga, Dance, stretching, meditation, Social away day trips, Group walks, Tea/Coffee meet up chat groups Fundraising Events Cake Bake, Pub Quiz, info on practical issues surrounding bereavement

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL SICKNESS OF PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF NEWHAM AND THE SURROUNDING AREA SUFFERING FROM BEREAVEMENT OR LOSS BY THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT FOR SUCH PERSONS.

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: Newham, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £4,136 as of 31 March 2025, representing a net increase from the previous year. The charity reported total incoming resources of £69,421 against total resources expended of £33,812, resulting in a positive net movement in funds. The trustees confirmed that the accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 11/05/2024, 101 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ERLINDA MARCANO
• Ivona Victoria Gordon Godon
• Phebean Johnson

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

Operates in: Barking And Dagenham · City Of London · Enfield · Hackney · Haringey · Islington · Newham · Redbridge · Tower Hamlets · Waltham Forest

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• THE DOVE SERVICE income £562k
• BEREAVEMENT CARE income £69k
• ESCAPE FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP income £390k
• LIFE CENTRE income £835k
• RECONNECTION income £36k
• COLLINGWOOD CENTRE LIMITED income £228k

Side by side with its peers

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