CIRENCESTER SIGNPOST

Registered charity 1175014 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Dedicated to uplifting, empowering and transforming the lives of the homeless in and around Cirencester.

Objects

IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES, THE RELIEF OF POVERTY FOR THOSE IN NEED WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON THOSE WHO ARE HOMELESS IN CIRENCESTER AND THE IMMEDIATE SURROUNDING AREA IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:- THE PROVISION OF 'DROP IN' SESSIONS OFFERING ADVOCACY, A BEFRIENDING SERVICE AND INFORMATION ON OTHER LOCAL AGENCIES- PROVIDING FREE MEALS TO HELP RELIEVE THOSE IN POVERTY- THE PROVISION OF CLOTHING, FOOTWEAR AND TOILETRIES TOGETHER WITH ASSISTANCE TO FIND HOUSINGWITH A VIEW TO INTEGRATING SUCH PEOPLE INTO SOCIETY.

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity retained a healthy sustainability surplus with unrestricted cash funds of £104,046 at the end of the financial year. Total expenditure for the period was £25,862, funded by receipts of £56,966. The trustees confirmed that resources were adequate and did not disclose any material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue operating.

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 3 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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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)

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Cirencester Signpost (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/06/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Caroline MacEchern
• Charlotte Gorman
• JULIETTE MARIE HARRIS

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

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 SIGNPOST (COLCHESTER) LIMITED.

• SIGNPOST (COLCHESTER) LIMITED income £394k
• SIGNPOSTS (LUTON) income £3.2m
• SIGNPOST income £256k
• CITYCOAST TRUST income £467k
• CORNERSTONE BUILDING TRUST income £32k
• STEPPINGSTONES CHARITY income £77k

Side by side with its peers

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