COLLINGHAM AND DISTRICT MEN IN SHEDS

Registered charity 1188119 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people within Collingham and District from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society through the provision of facilities in which they can meet jointly or individually to undertake creative, physical or recreational activities.

Objects

THE AIMS OF THE SHED ARE:(A) TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE WITHIN COLLINGHAM AND DISTRICT FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN WHICH THEY CAN MEET JOINTLY OR INDIVIDUALLY TO UNDERTAKE CREATIVE, PHYSICAL OR RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES, LEARN OR PASS ON SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE AND SUPPORT EACH OTHER SOCIALLY.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE 'SOCIALLY EXCLUDED' MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH OR OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL). (B) TO PROMOTE GOOD HEALTH AND WELLBEING TO ITS MEMBERS THROUGH ACTIVE PARTICIPATION AND FROM TIME TO TIME PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR RELEVANT HEALTH ORGANISATIONS TO RAISE AWARENESS OF GOOD HEALTH STRATEGIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE SHED.

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: Newark and Sherwood, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the period was £87,527.97 against total expenses of £84,646.66, resulting in a final balance of £17,818.59. The trustees report that total reserves currently stand in excess of their minimum requirement, which is defined as two years of estimated operating costs (£7,785).

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 4 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
• 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)

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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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/07/2023 (received 23/06/2024, 23 days after the 31/05/2024 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Desmond Williamschair
• Derrick John Watson
• Dr Stanley Richard Challand BSc, PhD,
• Jerome Campbell Wright

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

Operates in: Lincolnshire · Nottinghamshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DORKING MEN'S SHED.

• DORKING MEN'S SHED income £28k
• MEN IN SHEDS (HULL) income £68k
• PORINGLAND & DISTRICT MEN'S SHED income £35k
• BRUNDALL MEN'S SHED income £29k
• MEN'S SHED KNUTSFORD income £187k
• GAINSBOROUGH MEN'S SHED income £35k

Side by side with its peers

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