COMMON CHANGE UK

Registered charity 1171076 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Form Common Change groups with each member regularly giving finances to a Common Fund available for charitable giving (small grants) for the prevention or relief of poverty and/or financial crisis and hardship, as such needs are identified & agreed by members. Utilise new technology to assist depositing & combining money raised, until distribution in accordance with Charity Commission criteria.

Objects

A. THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY AND/OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY, OF PEOPLE LIVING ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD BY MAKING GRANTS OF MONEY FOR PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR ITEMS, SERVICES OR FACILITIES WHICH THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE AFFORD THROUGH LACK OF MEANS;B. THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY AND/OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY, OF PEOPLE LIVING ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION, TRAINING, TRANSPORTATION, HOUSING, HEALTHCARE AND ALL THE NECESSARY SUPPORT DESIGNED TO ENABLE INDIVIDUALS TO GENERATE A SUSTAINABLE INCOME AND BE SELF-SUFFICIENT.

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £8,248.90 for the year ended December 31, 2025, resulting in total assets of £53,283.55. Per the trustees' report, this deficit was met by drawing down existing cash reserves, which remain sufficient to cover the stated policy target of six months of average monthly overheads.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 4 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DARIN PETERSENchair
• STEVEN LEDGERWOOD
• Sam Ward

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TOGETHER FOR THE COMMON GOOD.

• TOGETHER FOR THE COMMON GOOD income £118k
• THE COMMON GOOD FOUNDATION income £199k
• TRANSGENERATIONAL CHANGE LIMITED income £377k
• COMMUNITY BARNET income £1.6m
• CHURCHES TOGETHER IN ENGLAND income £473k
• COMMUNITY CONCERN LONDON income £934

Side by side with its peers

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