THE COTTAGE COMMUNITY

Registered charity 1180662 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Cottage Community is an independent registered charity providing a day centre and hot meals, lunch clubs, activities, transport and shopping trips for elderly and vulnerable clients, resident in the our catchment area. Generally speaking our catchment area is the rural communities between Sevenoaks and Dartford and Gravesend.We have been providing services for over 65 years.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF ELDERLY PEOPLE IN ANY MANNER WHICH NOW IS, OR HEREAFTER MAY BE, DEEMED BY LAW TO BE CHARITABLE WITHIN THE AREA OF SOUTH EAST LONDON, THE COUNTY OF KENT AND IN PARTICULAR NORTH WEST KENT.

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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Registered contact address: Sevenoaks, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity incurred a deficit of £122,501 for the year ended 31 March 2026, which was covered by unrestricted reserves, reducing total funds to £220,753. The trustees state that future operations are dependent on securing additional funding, representing a material uncertainty regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Current reserves are considered sufficient to continue operations for only a further year to eighteen months.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2025) → material uncertainty (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Conflicting interests
• 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)

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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/07/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Armstrong
• DEREK PUTMAN
• James Willis
• John Kelly · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Kent

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 MEDMENHAM CHURCH COTTAGES CHARITY.

• MEDMENHAM CHURCH COTTAGES CHARITY income £47k
• ROGIET COMMUNITY JUNCTION income £759k
• CATERHAM COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £29k
• PEACE COTTAGES CHARITY income £88k
• THE QUEEN ALEXANDRA COTTAGE HOMES income £2.5m
• WOOTTON TOWN HOUSES CHARITY income £27k

Side by side with its peers

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