SMALL ACTS OF KINDNESS TRUST

Registered charity 1178546 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SMALL ACTS OF KINDNESS

Our mission is to reduce the negative impact of loneliness and isolation on the physical and mental wellbeing of older people particularly those who are cold in their homes. We operate across Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire and are expanding elsewhere. Our primary activity is sourcing and distributing free of charge practical Warm in Winter gift bags and helpful information packs to our recipients.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF THOSE WHO ARE IN NEED BECAUSE OF AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER GROUPS OF PEOPLE IN SOCIETY WHO ARE MARGINALISED, NEGLECTED OR VULNERABLE. IN PARTICULAR, BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION, WORKING TO PREVENT OR REDUCE LONELINESS, ISOLATION AND POVERTY, AND TO PREVENT OR REDUCE THE NEGATIVE IMPACT OF LONELINESS, ISOLATION AND POVERTY ON THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL WELLBEING OF SUCH PERSONS, INCLUDING (WITHOUT LIMITATION) BY:i. SOURCING AND PACKING MATERIALS, GOODS AND INFORMATION TO BE GIVEN AS GIFTS TO RECIPIENTS, AND ENGAGING LOCAL PEOPLE IN THEIR DISTRIBUTION IN WAYS THAT CREATE AND STRENGTHEN SOCIAL CONNECTIONS, AND WHICH MAY IMPROVE THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL WELLBEING OF THE RECIPIENTS; ii. BUILDING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN LOCAL AGENCIES, ORGANISATIONS, GROUPS, INDIVIDUALS AND BUSINESSES THAT ENABLE COMMUNITIES TO REDUCE THE FACTORS THAT LEAD TO ISOLATION, LONELINESS AND POVERTY. THE ACTIVITIES OF THE CIO WILL BE DELIVERED WITHIN ENGLAND AND WALES. NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE ANY APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CIO FOR PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT LEGALLY CHARITABLE AS DEFINED BY LAW.

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 reserves decreased from £81,991 to £68,207 due to a net expenditure of £13,784 against total income of £233,668. The trustees report no specific reserves policy target and confirm adequate resources for going concern. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme with no disclosed deficit.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Small Acts of Kindness (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHRISTOPHER HUGH HAMILLchair
• ALISON MANN
• Adam Keith Ginder DL
• HEMA PANDYA
• Peter Lindsay Dale

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

Operates in: Bedford · Central Bedfordshire · Hertfordshire · Luton

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 THE STUART LOW TRUST.

• THE STUART LOW TRUST income £232k
• FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY income £22.0m
• CROSS GATES & DISTRICT GOOD NEIGHBOURS'SCHEME CIO income £416k
• AGE UK LEWISHAM AND SOUTHWARK income £2.6m
• KTRUST LIMITED income £240k
• SAMR TRUST income £278k

Side by side with its peers

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