Good Neighbours-Rural Peterborough

Registered charity 1186197 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RURAL NORTH WEST PETERBOROUGH GOOD NEIGHBOURS SCHEME

To support people in need in the local community in order to improve their quality of life. This support provision includes but is not limited to befriending, transport, domestic support, and household assistance. To develop a sense of mutual support and friendship within the local community

Objects

For the public benefit the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability or social or economic disadvantage who are resident in the City of Peterborough and all of its surrounding Local Authority areas in particular but not exclusively by providing such services as transport, home visiting, home assistance, befriending, and other services calculated to relieve their need. Nothing in this constitution shall authorise an application of the property of the CIO for the purposes which are not charitable in accordance with [section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005] and [section 2 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008].

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Peterborough, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£74k

Latest spending

£78k

Registered

2019

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £43,169, which is approximately £5,000 above the trustees' stated minimum reserves policy of £37,000. The trustees consider this excess to be a timing situation at year-end and note that the budgeted income and expenditure are sufficient to continue as a going concern for the next 12 months.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: six months of ongoing costs (reserves figure: £43k)

“The trustees consider that minimum reserves of £37,000 for the purpose of sustaining a budgeted six month period of ongoing costs of running the charity.” — page 10

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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 policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
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

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

Volunteers: 85
Government income: £24,750 — grants £24,750 (3); 33% of the £73,903 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

Volunteers: 85
Government income: £1,889 — grants £1,889 (1); 2% of the £99,519 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/03/2023

Volunteers: 83
Government income: £26,539 — grants £26,539 (2); 72% of the £36,818 total gross income on the same return

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

Jane Cavechair · trustee of 1 other charity
Claire Biggam Bysshe
Dorothy Halfhide
JOAN PICKETT
Patricia Pearce
William Manton BAXTER · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: Peterborough City

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£74k	£78k
31/03/2024	£100k	£74k
30/03/2023	£37k	£36k
30/03/2022	£31k	£23k
30/03/2021	£24k	£10k

Common questions

Is Good Neighbours-Rural Peterborough financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £43,169, which is approximately £5,000 above the trustees' stated minimum reserves policy of £37,000. The trustees consider this excess to be a timing situation at year-end and note that the budgeted income and expenditure are sufficient to continue as a going concern for the next 12 months. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds Good Neighbours-Rural Peterborough?

Funders whose own accounts filings name Good Neighbours-Rural Peterborough as a grant recipient include THE EVELYN TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE EVELYN TRUST	FY2025	£41k	Good Neighbours Rural Peterborough
THE EVELYN TRUST	FY2024	£14k	Good Neighbours Rural Peterborough
THE EVELYN TRUST	FY2025	£10k	Good Neighbours Rural Peterborough

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE PETER KERSHAW TRUST	1	£2k
THE ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER FOUNDATION	1	£100

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Carleton Grange Trust.

Carleton Grange Trust income £194k
WICKSTEED CHARITABLE TRUST income £4.4m
GAINSBOROUGH AND DISTRICT WELFARE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £37k
BOGNOR HOUSING TRUST income £376k
LEVENSHULME GOOD NEIGHBOURS income £49k
AFRICAN CARIBBEAN FORUM income £28k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
Good Neighbours-Rural Peterborough	£74k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
Carleton Grange Trust FY2025	£194k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
WICKSTEED CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£4.4m	£80,001 - £90,000	—	unclear	—	no doubt
GAINSBOROUGH AND DISTRICT WELFARE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION LIMITED FY2024	£37k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
BOGNOR HOUSING TRUST FY2025	£376k	—	—	above	—	no doubt
LEVENSHULME GOOD NEIGHBOURS FY2025	£49k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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