NORTH SOMERSET LGBT+ FORUM

Registered charity 1174545 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Promoting equality and diversity

Objects

TO PROMOTE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND IN PARTICULAR THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER IDENTITY OF THOSE LIVING IN NORTH SOMERSET AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS, INCLUDING IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:· RAISING THE AWARENESS OF THE PUBLIC WITH REGARD TO ALL ASPECTS OF DISCRIMINATION IN SOCIETY AND ISSUES AND DIFFICULTIES AFFECTING THE LIVES OF LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER (LGBT) PEOPLE;· CULTIVATING A SENTIMENT IN FAVOUR OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY IN PARTICULAR THROUGH CELEBRATING THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF LGBT PEOPLE AND DIVERSITY OF THE LGBT COMMUNITY;· ADVANCING EDUCATION AND RAISING AWARENESS IN EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY WHETHER BY TEACHING, INTERACTION, PERFORMANCE OR PRODUCING AND/OR DISPLAYING ARTISTIC AND OTHER MATERIALS;· PRODUCING PUBLICATIONS, LECTURES, MEDIA, PROMOTING PUBLIC EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS, PUBLIC ADVOCACY AND OTHER MEANS OF COMMUNICATIONS;· ASSOCIATION WITH VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS, AND/OR GOVERNMENTAL, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE BODIES TO DEVELOP AND MAXIMISE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS RUN BY AND FOR LGBT PEOPLE;· STAGING AND PROMOTING LGBT EVENTS AND IN PARTICULAR AN ANNUAL LGBT FESTIVAL;· PROMOTING ACTIVITIES TO FOSTER UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN PEOPLE FORM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: North Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £4,655 for the year ending 31 October 2025, with total income of £30,902 and total expenditure of £26,247. Per the trustees' report, the charity remains in a sound financial position with unrestricted reserves of £13,378. The trustees confirmed that no employees received emoluments in excess of £60,000 and no trustees received remuneration.

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.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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 profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alisa Winder
• Elizabeth Kelly
• Ethan Shewring
• Jade Lyddon
• Laura John
• PAUL DOBLE
• Tiernan Kelly
• Zoe Macleod-Midwinter

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

Operates in: North Somerset

Income and spending

Common questions

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LGBT SHEFFIELD.

• LGBT SHEFFIELD income £37k
• NORTH SOMERSET AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £392k
• SOMERSET COUNSELLING CENTRE income £476k
• Race Equality North Somerset income £119k
• GLASSHOUGHTON COMMUNITY FORUM LIMITED income £176k
• THE SHAMELESS FUND income £579k

Side by side with its peers

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