UPBEAT COMMUNITIES LTD

Registered charity 1162856 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as UPBEAT COMMUNITIES

Upbeat Communities aims to relieve the charitable needs of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in particular those coming to the United Kingdom and to promote racial harmony for the public benefit. This is achieved by practical help, advice and education delivered directly to meet individual needs. This work is currently carried out in the Counties of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

Objects

3.1 TO RELIEVE THE CHARITABLE NEEDS OF MIGRANTS, REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS IN PARTICULAR THOSE COMING TO THE UNITED KINGDOM, BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE AND ORGANISING EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES AND SUCH OTHER ACTIVITIES AS THE TRUSTEES DEEM FIT AS A MEANS OF:A) ADVANCING THEIR EDUCATION AND TRAINING;B) RELIEVING THEM FROM FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND UNEMPLOYMENT; ANDC) ADVANCING THEM IN LIFE AND ASSISTING THEM WITH THE ADAPTION WITHIN A NEW COMMUNITY.3.2 TO PROMOTE RACIAL HARMONY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:A) PROMOTING ACTIVITIES TO FOSTER UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN PEOPLE FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS; ANDB) ADVANCING EDUCATION AND RAISING AWARENESS ABOUT DIFFERENT RACIAL GROUPS, INCLUDING THE ISSUES FACED BY MIGRANTS, REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS TO PROMOTE GOOD RELATIONS BETWEEN PERSONS OF DIFFERENT RACIAL GROUPS.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Derby, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated total income of £1,501,754 against total expenditure of £1,378,427, resulting in a net surplus for the year. Free/unrestricted reserves stood at £398,476, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet their policy target of maintaining 4 to 6 months of operating costs. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Thompson Jenner LLP. 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
• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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)

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Upbeat Communities (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Lesley — Interim Chief Executive (source)
• Dave — Chair (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (47% 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: 26.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVE PRIESTLEYchair
• Bashir Fatehi
• Bijal Datta
• Gillian Linford
• Helen Louise Mcevansoneya
• Kasemuka Mahenga
• Marian Regan
• TIM RINGER

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

Operates in: Derby City · Derbyshire · Leicester City · Leicestershire · Lincolnshire · Nottingham City · Nottinghamshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 ABBEY COMMUNITY CENTRE.

• ABBEY COMMUNITY CENTRE income £490k
• CRESCENTS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £67k
• EN:Communities CIO income £47k
• COUNTIES income £1.2m
• NHANCED COMMUNITIES income £182k
• WATERBEACH UNITED CHARITIES income £30k

Side by side with its peers

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