FRIENDS OF HISTON & IMPINGTON COMMUNITY

Registered charity 1185578 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HI Friends

The Charity seeks to improve the conditions of life of residents of all ages in the villages of Histon & Impington and its environs by:a) promoting and supporting for mental and physical wellbeing b) developing, providing and supporting opportunities and facilities for sporting, exercise and recreation c) providing and maintaining community transport services

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:1) TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE RESIDING IN THE VILLAGES OF HISTON AND IMPINGTON AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, SUPPORT, INFORMATION, ACTIVITIES AND A COMMUNITY MINIBUS WHICH ARE CAPABLE OF REDUCING THEIR SOCIAL ISOLATION.2) TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE VILLAGES OF HISTON AND IMPINGTON AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS.3) TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE IN THE VILLAGES OF HISTON AND IMPINGTON AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS EXPERIENCING MENTAL ILLNESS, THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS BY RAISING GENERAL AWARENESS AND UNDERSTANDING IN THE COMMUNITY ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH WELLBEING TO REDUCE STIGMA, DISCRIMINATION AND SOCIAL ISOLATION.FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH OR OLD AGE, ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS; DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE, DISABILITY, ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN; POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC HABITABLE STANDARDS); CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY) AND BEREAVEMENT.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of €16,076 and holds designated reserves of £76,255. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention that would cause them to believe the accounts were not properly prepared or accorded with the accounting records.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

• 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
• Investment
• 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
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Friends of Histon & Impington Community (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/04/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/04/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Daniel Herbert Kelly
• Dr David Wilson · trustee of 1 other charity
• EDD STONHAM
• Jessica Pratt
• Kate Camps
• Nicola Fraser
• Rebecca Strivens
• Richard Martin
• Rob Murphy
• Vernon Dudley

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HEALTHWATCH ISLINGTON.

• HEALTHWATCH ISLINGTON income £695k
• THE LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF ILKESTON COMMUNITY HOSPITAL income £196k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF THE ICKNIELD WAY VILLAGES income £143k
• THE WHITMINSTER VILLAGE HALL AND PLAYING FIELD CHARITY income £166k
• DEESIDE COMMUNITY TRUST income £599k
• CHANCTONBURY COMMUNITY LEISURE LTD income £844k

Side by side with its peers

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