SECOND TIME AROUND CHARITIES

Registered charity 1167212 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as STACHARITIES

Second Time Around is a charity furniture restoration project that recycles unwanted or donated wooden furniture. Our vision is training and volunteering opportunities to promote social inclusion and independance for adults with learning disabilities.

Objects

1.) TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE DISABLED WHO ARE EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PART OR SOCIETY AS A RESULT OF THEIR DISABILITY; AND2)TO ADVANCE THE SOCIAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF DISABLED;3)TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF AND TO HELP PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES AND THEIR CARERS BY PROVIDING VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES.

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a small surplus of £1,323 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted funds increasing to £115,522. The trustees report that despite high energy and insurance costs, the charity maintains stable client numbers and has capacity for further community inclusion activities. Reserves are held in cash and current accounts, with a policy to hold funds equivalent to one quarter of operating costs.

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.

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
• 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• BEVERLEY WALKERchair
• DAVID NICHOLAS HEDDERLY
• IAN WILSON · trustee of 2 other charities
• JOHN TYSOE
• KIM LESLEY FINLAYSON
• MARGARET ANNE PRIOR · trustee of 1 other charity
• PETER THOMAS COYNE

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

Operates in: Northamptonshire · Oxfordshire · Warwickshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TURNTABLE FURNITURE.

• TURNTABLE FURNITURE income £152k
• 2ECOND CHANCE income £266k
• KENNET FURNITURE REFURBIZ income £1.2m
• FOREST UPCYCLING PROJECT income £998k
• DONCASTER REFURNISH income £1.7m
• ROUNDABOUT (WEST MIDLANDS) LIMITED income £290k

Side by side with its peers

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