TCL RE USE

Registered charity 1177557 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We prevent items going to landfill and in turn are able to provide furniture, white goods and household items to the general public and to those on a low income at significantly reduced prices. We also work with a wide variety of agencies to seek to help those who are struggling to help themselves. Part of this is providing free furniture to referred at risk families.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:4.1. THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, UNEMPLOYMENT, POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT, ILL-HEALTH OR SUCH OTHER ECONOMIC OR SOCIAL DISADVANTAGE; 4.2. TO PROVIDE GRANTS TO CHARITIES, ORGANISATIONS, OTHER GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS TO FULFIL EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES; AND4.3. THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT, IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE PROMOTION OF WASTE REDUCTION, REUSE AND RECYCLING.

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 FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds total £57,670.71, which represents approximately three months of unrestricted expenditure. This level is within the trustees' stated policy target of maintaining reserves between three and six months of resources expended. The charity reported a net income surplus of £63,560 for the year, indicating stable operational performance.

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 5 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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 profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOHN JASON WILLIAM HENRYchair
• Frances Elizabeth Rogers
• JAVIER LESTA CANDAL

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with spruse Stevenage Reuse Scheme.

• spruse Stevenage Reuse Scheme income £139k
• FURNITURE RESOURCE CENTRE LIMITED income £21.7m
• LIGHTHOUSE FURNITURE PROJECT LIMITED income £740k
• TURNTABLE FURNITURE income £152k
• RAVEN HOUSE TRUST LIMITED income £200k
• THE RE-USE PARTNERSHIP income £301k

Side by side with its peers

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