FOLKESTONE, DOVER AND HYTHE SAMARITANS

Registered charity 1174193 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To support people who are feeling suicidal, despairing, in distress or in need of emotional support. This is achieved by providing telephone, text, email or face-to-face contact. Our aim is to help such people receive appropriate support whenever it is needed.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's emotional support services have permanently ceased and the entity is being wound up. Consequently, the charity generated a surplus of £24,894 for the year, with total unrestricted reserves increasing to £79,537. The trustees are implementing a plan to realise assets, including the sale of branch premises, with all surplus assets to be returned to the central charity.

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.

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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Douglas Peter Hewson
• Michael Bossick
• OONAGH JANE WILLIAMS
• SUSAN ELIZABETH TANTON

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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