CITY & EAST LONDON BEREAVEMENT SERVICE

Registered charity 1169797 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CELBS, THE CITY & EAST LONDON BEREAVEMENT SERVICE

THE RELIEF OF THOSE WHO ARE PSYCHOLOGICALLY, EMOTIONALLY OR OTHERWISE DISTRESSED BY DEATH OR TERMINAL ILLNESS IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF TOWER HAMLETS, INCLUDING PATIENTS, RELATIVES, PARTNERS OR FRIENDS OF PATIENTS OF THE ROYAL HOSPITALS NHS TRUST.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF THOSE WHO ARE PSYCHOLOGICALLY, EMOTIONALLY OR OTHERWISE DISTRESSED BY BEREAVEMENT OR TERMINAL ILLNESS IN THE CITY OF LONDON, AND EAST LONDON.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £839 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted reserves standing at £8,967. The trustees note that this level of reserves represents approximately six weeks of running costs and acknowledge the need to increase this buffer. The charity continues to operate despite ongoing fundraising challenges and a challenging funding environment.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/12/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CATHERINE TOLLINGTONchair
• KATE PHILLIPS
• POLLY FITCH
• Stephen Terence GILVIN · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Tower Hamlets

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 BEREAVEMENT CARE.

• BEREAVEMENT CARE income £69k
• STREAMS OF JOY EAST LONDON income £249k
• SOUTH EAST AND CENTRAL ESSEX MIND LIMITED income £883k
• CAMDEN CITY ISLINGTON AND WESTMINSTER BEREAVEMENT SERVICE income £445k
• Cruse Bereavement Support income £6.5m
• CENTRAL HARDSHIP AND RELIEF TRUST income £2.9m

Side by side with its peers

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