REACH COMMUNITY PROJECTS

Registered charity 1169108 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

REACH assists clients in financial crisis, focusing on solutions for debt and hardship through a relational handholding approach. Food parcels deliver immediate crisis relief. Long-term interventions include debt advice, benefits assistance, housing aid, essential items. Our prevention work involves post intervention 1-2-1 wellbeing guidance, money management classes in schools, advocacy & policy.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:FOR THE BENEFIT OF PEOPLE LIVING IN HAVERHILL AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, IN PARTICULAR THROUGH THE RELIEF OF THOSE LIVING IN POVERTY OR IN NEED BY REASON OF AGE, ILL-HEALTH OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE, IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity posted a small surplus of £21,612 for the year ended 30 September 2025, reversing a deficit from the previous year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves increased to £74,553, providing working capital to protect the continuity of core work. The charity maintains a reserves policy target of three months of staffing and running 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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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

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 — Reach Community Projects (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• All Churches Trust — “Funding Partners: All Churches Trust” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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: 14.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ROY DUNCAN GRAHAMchair
• GAVIN PAUL JAMES ROWDEN
• Kelleigh Jansen
• Leigh David Carter
• Matthew Thomas Stevenson

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Essex · Suffolk

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 REACH TRUST.

• REACH TRUST income £1.0m
• REACH CHARITY LIMITED income £367k
• Reach Counselling Limited income £96k
• REACH LEARNING DISABILITY income £3.9m
• REACH OUT UK income £24k
• REACH CHURCH income £107k

Side by side with its peers

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