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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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 (held: £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.

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