NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH NETWORK

Registered charity 1173349 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NWN

Our aim is to bring neighbours together to create strong, friendly, active communities where crime and anti-social behaviour are less likely to happen throughout England and Wales.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE NHWN ARE TO : (A) PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, GOOD CITIZENSHIP, COMMUNITY SAFETY AND GREATER PUBLIC PARTICIPATION, IN THE PREVENTION AND DETECTION OF CRIME AND (B) PROMOTE PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR THE WORK OF THE POLICE SERVICE AND OTHER PARTNERS, IN THE PROTECTION OF PEOPLE AND PROPERTY FROM, AND PREVENTION OF CRIME.

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 FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £26,166 for the year ended 31 March 2026, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £181,544. The trustees confirm that these reserves cover 4.0 months of budgeted general fund operating costs, meeting their stated policy target of three to six months. The filing confirms that resources are adequate to continue in operation for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainty identified.

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 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £80,001 - £90,000 (FY2025) to £80,000 - £90,000 (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Neighbourhood Watch (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~3.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (54% 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: 11.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/02/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/03/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ian Morris Bretmanchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Jones
• Andrew Whyte
• Hugh Ind
• Rebecca Catherine Bryant OBE
• Roke Julian Lockhart Beedell
• Susan Pillar

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NEPHRA GOOD NEIGHBOURS CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION.

• NEPHRA GOOD NEIGHBOURS CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION income £159k
• NHANCED COMMUNITIES income £182k
• ACTIVE COMMUNITIES NETWORK LIMITED income £1.9m
• SURVEILLANCE STUDIES NETWORK income £162k
• BIERLEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION LTD income £210k
• THE GIRLS' NETWORK income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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