HIVE

Registered charity 1165566 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Hive provides information services, resources and network opportunities for voluntary and community sector groups in the Sudbury and District area of Suffolk. It helps new community groups to grow and provides training for trustees, staff and volunteers within local organisations. It now owns a building (a former URC church) which it hires out to local groups.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUDBURY AND DISTRICT AREA OF SUFFOLK BY:A) PROVIDING A SERVICE TO VULNERABLE ADULTS AND CHILDREN SUPPORTING THEM WITH THEIR HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE NEEDS;B) PROVIDING TRAINING AND LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND RESOURCES TO LOCAL VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY GROUPS;C) PROVIDING INFORMATION SERVICES TO LOCAL GROUPS;D) PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOCAL GROUPS TO WORK IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OTHER AGENCIES; ANDE) OFFERING FUNDING OR FUNDING ADVICE TO HELP LOCAL GROUPS TO DEVELOP.(THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR’ MEANS CHARITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS. CHARITIES ARE ORGANISATIONS, WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES. VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS ARE INDEPENDENT ORGANISATIONS, WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR PURPOSES THAT ADD VALUE TO THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE, OR A SIGNIFICANT SECTION OF THE COMMUNITY, AND WHICH ARE NOT PERMITTED BY THEIR CONSTITUTION TO MAKE A PROFIT FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION. VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS DO NOT INCLUDE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OR OTHER STATUTORY AUTHORITIES)

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a total income of £31,866 and a net surplus of £8,358 for the year, resulting in a total fund balance of £38,245. However, the unrestricted funds experienced a net loss of £3,267, and the trustees note risks regarding the ability to raise funds and the costs associated with managing the purchased building.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dorothy Mary Slatter
• Nesta Lesley Ford-Platt MA
• ROBIN WILLIAM RYDING HODGKINSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Anthony Platt Mr

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).