NUMBER 11

Registered charity 1184610 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Number 11 is a lifeline for individuals in our community struggling with a variety of issues, from difficulties with debt and benefits through to isolation, unemployment, bereavement or mental illness. Our focus is on a person centred sustainable approach. Number 11 is a family, so in addition to our workshops or one-to-one support we emphasise eating, playing, laughing and doing life together.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OF THOSE IN STOKE-IN-TRENT AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT SERVICES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ACCESSING BENEFITS AND ACCOMMODATION, DEVELOPING CORE SKILLS, DEBT MANAGEMENT AND EMPLOYABILITY

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Stoke-on-Trent, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's free reserves of £42,196 are below its stated policy target of £90,000. However, the trustees report that the charity is in a healthy position going into the next financial year, supported by total cash reserves of £117,196.

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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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 — Number 11 (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sam Taylorchair
• Jonathan Hibberts
• Kieran Edward Hughes
• Ree Smith
• Wendy Blood

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

Operates in: Stoke-on-trent City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

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

• LIFELINE COMMUNITY ACTION income £742k
• LIFE CENTRE income £835k
• THE COMMUNITY OF RECONCILIATION AND FELLOWSHIP income £152k
• MAKING A DIFFERENCE income £30k
• Addiction Family Support income £298k
• A PLACE TO CALL OUR OWN LIMITED income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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