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.

Objects

TO ENABLE PERSONS IN READING AND THE SURROUNDING AREA AS WELL AS ELSEWHERE WHO ARE EXPERIENCING FEELINGS OF DISTRESS OR DESPAIR, INCLUDING THOSE WHO MAY BE AT RISK OF SUICIDE, TO RECEIVE CONFIDENTIAL EMOTIONAL SUPPORT AT ANY TIME OF THE DAY OR NIGHT IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THEIR EMOTIONAL HEALTH AND TO REDUCE THE INCIDENCE OF SUICIDE;TO PROMOTE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING IN SOCIETY OF SUICIDE, SUICIDAL BEHAVIOUR AND THE VALUE OF EXPRESSING FEELINGS WHICH MAY OTHERWISE LEAD TO SUICIDE OR IMPAIRED EMOTIONAL HEALTH; ANDTO COLLABORATE WITH AND SUPPORT SAMARITANS CENTRAL CHARITY AND ITS AFFILIATED BRANCHES IN FULFILLING THESE OBJECTS.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Reading, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a minimal loss of £521 for the year, primarily due to a £10,650 drain repair, despite receiving generous support from local businesses and grants. Unrestricted reserves stood at £65,284, which is slightly above the trustees' target of 18 months' expenditure, indicating a stable financial position for the upcoming years.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

• 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
• 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 — 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

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 NOTTINGHAM SAMARITANS.

• NOTTINGHAM SAMARITANS income £18k
• SAMARITANS OF LANCASTER & DISTRICT income £67k
• SAMARITANS OF DERBY AND DISTRICT income £42k
• SAMARITANS OF HALIFAX AND CALDERDALE income £49k
• SAMARITANS OF LEICESTER, LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND income £201k
• CHESTER AND DISTRICT SAMARITANS income £48k

Side by side with its peers

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