THE BUCKS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE OF OFFENDERS

Registered charity 1186375 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BACO

BACO aims to help offenders break their cycle of criminal behaviour and reintegrate back into society as contributing members. We work with the Prison service and Probation but independently of both. We provide small grants to serving prisoners resident in Buckinghamshire's prisons, ex-offenders and those released on licence into the county of Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes.

Objects

TO EDUCATE AND TRAIN AND RELIEVE POVERTY AND SICKNESS AMONG PERSONS WHO ARE SUFFERING A LEGAL RESTRICTION ON THEIR LIBERTY IN ANY PENAL OR CORRECTIONAL ESTABLISHMENT, OR WHO HAVE BEEN CONVICTED OF ANY CRIMINAL OFFENCE, AND THE FAMILIES OF SUCH PERSONS AND TO PROMOTE, SUPPORT OR CARRY ON EITHER ALONE, OR IN CO-OPERATION WITH ANY BODY, AUTHORITY OR PERSON, ANY PROJECT OR SCHEME IN CONNECTION WITH ANY METHODS OF THE PREVENTION OF CRIME AND DELINQUENCY WITHIN THE AREA OF THE COUNTY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE (WHICH FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBT SHALL INCLUDE MILTON KEYNES)

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a decrease in assets of £14,686 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in total funds carried forward of £70,852. The trustees report steering the charity on a financially sound path, with unrestricted reserves of £64,906 held against a policy target of three months' budgeted expenditure. No material uncertainties or going concern issues were disclosed in the filing.

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 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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/10/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Camilla Rose Soameschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew William Muir
• Caroline Donald · trustee of 1 other charity
• Caroline Serjeant · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nicola Ross · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rosamund Rossington
• Ruth Sarah Farwell · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire

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