The People Hive

Registered charity 1174852 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RHLT

Activities - offering a wide range of on-going and one-off activities for people with learning disabilities. Volunteering - providing opportunities for volunteers to work in our small retail shop selling local artist work and providing work experience for people with learning disabilities. Mentoring adults with learning disabilities. Running support workshops. Other work experience options.

Objects

CHARITABLE PURPOSES2.1 The charitable purposes of the Company shall be the support, care welfare and wellbeing of people with a learning disability centred around (but not exclusively to or within) the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and adjoining or neighbouring boroughs and in particular:(a) the creation and provision of activities, courses and workshops in which such persons may partake, all such objectives and activities to enable such persons to live and develop meaningful lives in their local and wider community and in the way and manner of their individual and respective choosing; and(b) the establishment running and maintenance of retail and hospitality premises to support the charitable purposes.2.2 The above purposes are the Company’s charitable purposes for the purposes of the 2011 Act. For as long as the Company is a registered charity, its purposes may only be altered with the prior consent of the Charity Commission and in accordance with any conditions attached to such consent.

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 · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Richmond upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £41,431 for the year ended 31 March 2025, primarily due to increased charitable expenditure. However, the trustees report that the balance sheet remains strong with total net assets of £760,894, supported by significant liquid assets from the sale of a freehold property. The charity maintains unrestricted reserves of £748,393, which exceeds its stated policy target of 9-12 months of running costs.

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
• 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
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/01/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Bernadette Jansen
• David Thorpe
• Ellen van Keulen
• Hugh Swithin Evans
• MARK DESMOND ALBROW
• Patrick Hehir

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PEOPLE IN ACTION.

• PEOPLE IN ACTION income £11.4m
• BEAMSTAFFS income £211k
• HASTINGS THRIVES income £17k
• MENS ACCOMMODATION AND SUPPORT income £1.1m
• HOUSING INDEPENDENT PEOPLE income £44k
• REACH LEARNING DISABILITY income £3.9m

Side by side with its peers

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