RICHMOND GOOD NEIGHBOURS

Registered charity 1187997 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We are a small charity,based in Richmond. Our team of volunteers support elderly or housebound residents shopping who live in the heart of the borough of Richmond visiting or driving clients to medical appointments or social activities. Essentially we do what a good neighbour should do.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF RGN ARE TO PROVIDE SERVICES TO THE ELDERLY, THE DISABLED, THE HOUSEBOUND, AND OTHERS IN NEED LIVING WITHIN THE HEART OF THE BOROUGH OF RICHMOND.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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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Registered contact address: Richmond upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a net deficit of £12,490 for the year ended 31 March 2026, with total income of £48,419 and total expenses of £60,909. Closing balances decreased from an opening total of £65,015 to £55,395. The accounts state that reserves stand at 94% of the operational expenditure budget for the 2026/27 period.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2025) → no going-concern doubt (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Susan Anne Stewartchair
• John Christopher Long
• Louise Taggart
• Matthew Lund
• Russell Edward Middleton Stuart
• Sheelagh O'Neill
• Thomas Richard Seaborne · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DIDSBURY GOOD NEIGHBOURS.

• DIDSBURY GOOD NEIGHBOURS income £121k
• GOOD NEIGHBOURS UK income £293k
• RICHMOND FURNITURE SCHEME income £381k
• RICHMOND CHARITIES income £4.9m
• CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP IN RICHMOND income £68k
• LEVENSHULME GOOD NEIGHBOURS income £49k

Side by side with its peers

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