STEEP IN NEED

Registered charity 1187284 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SINC

The charity makes grants in furtherance of its aim to prevent and reduce poverty in the parish of Steep Hampshire and adjoining parishes.

Objects

THE PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF POVERTY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AMONG PERSONS WHO ARE IN NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS AND ARE RESIDENT IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: East Hampshire, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the entity reported a profit of £392,999 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in total shareholders' funds of £498,985. The financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties disclosed. The entity is exempt from audit under small company provisions and relies on an independent examiner's report rather than a full audit.

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 3 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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2023 (received 31/01/2025, 92 days after the 31/10/2024 due date); year ending 31/12/2022 (received 16/12/2023, 46 days after the 31/10/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 12231975

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• FROST, Matthew — director, appointed 05/12/2022on trustee list
• HALL, Peter John — director, appointed 04/10/2021on trustee list
• RUSH, James Stanley — director, appointed 22/07/2020on trustee list
• DALE, Geoffrey James — director, appointed 27/09/2019not on trustee list
• ROBINSON, Caroline Augusta — director, appointed 27/09/2019on trustee list
• WHITE, Brian Michael Thackery — director, appointed 27/09/2019not on trustee list
• FERNANDEZ, Patricia Anne — secretary, appointed 17/10/2022

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/07/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• James Stanley Rushchair
• Brian Michael Thackery White FRICS
• Caroline Augusta Robinson
• Geoffrey James Dale MA, FRICS
• Matthew Frost
• Peter John Hall

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with STEP (SUPPORTING THE ELDERLY PEOPLE).

• STEP (SUPPORTING THE ELDERLY PEOPLE) income £108k
• STEP BY STEP PARTNERSHIP LIMITED income £4.6m
• STEPPING STONE PROJECTS income £14.5m
• STEPS AHEAD LTD income £53k
• STEVENTON ALLOTMENTS AND RELIEF IN NEED CHARITY income £151k
• HELP IN NEED TODAY income £558k

Side by side with its peers

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