SOUTH CHESHIRE CLASP

Registered charity 1188608 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The relief of poverty, sickness and distress and the advancement of education amongst single parents and their families in the South Cheshire area through the provision of, but not exclusively, such services as confidential listening, advice, training courses and signposting. The services provided by the organisation are within a Christian ethos.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS: FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND WITHIN A CHRISTIAN ETHOS TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN AND LONE PARENTS LIVING IN THE SOUTH CHESHIRE AREA, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY: A) PROVIDING CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND PARENTING SKILLS TRAINING TO PARENTS; B) PROVIDING SAFE GROUP PLAY AND OTHER ACTIVITIES DESIGNED TO SUPPORT CHILDREN’S SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT;C) PROVIDING SUPPORT, ACTIVITIES AND SIGNPOSTING TO ADVICE WHICH DEVELOP THE CAPABILITIES, COMPETENCES, SKILLS AND UNDERSTANDING OF PARENTS; D) PROVIDING ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES DESIGNED TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS;E) PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

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.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cheshire East, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year ended 31 December 2025 was £253,213, with unrestricted reserves of £159,415. This exceeds the charity's stated policy target of retaining sufficient funds to cover five months' expenditure (approximately £86,083). The trustees confirm the charity is adequately resourced to continue in operation for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 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
• 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)

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — South Cheshire CLASP (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/06/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• John Colcloughchair
• GRAHAM EDWARD BUSHILL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gemma Harris
• Julia Helen Wood
• RUTH GRIMSHAW · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rachel Jayne Jones

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

Operates in: Cheshire East

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 SUPPORTING CARERS AND FAMILIES TOGETHER.

• SUPPORTING CARERS AND FAMILIES TOGETHER income £98k
• SHEFFIELD YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION income £1.8m
• SHELF PRE-SCHOOL income £188k
• SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN income £7.2m
• PALMER AND SEABRIGHT CHARITY income £62k
• PARENTS IN NEED income £79k

Side by side with its peers

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