READING SAMARITANS

Registered charity 1170632 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provides confidential emotional support, by telephone, text message, email or face to face, to those in distress or at risk of suicide.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a loss for the year of £2,158, with total income of £36,440 against total expenditure of £38,598. Unrestricted reserves held at 31 March 2025 were £67,938, which the trustees note is slightly above their target of 18 months' expenditure. The charity has no employees and is wholly performed by volunteers.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Reading Samaritans (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Atul Khetarpal
• Darren Jones
• Emma Louise Fraser
• Helen Elizabeth Blanchard
• Hetal Patel
• Justin John Henniker Bedingfeld · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sarah Jane Bowsher
• Sophie Elisabeth McBean
• Stephen Scott
• Tracey Nicola Chessher
• William Russell Dixon · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Reading

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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