RPD FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1188650 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

THE PROMOTION OF THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE SUSSEX AREA, BY MAKING GRANTS AND PROVIDING SERVICES 2. THE PROMOTION OF THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES AND THE EFFECTIVE USE OF RESOURCES FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE SUSSEX AREA, BY MAKING GRANTS AND PROVIDING SERVICES

Objects

1. THE PROMOTION OF THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE SUSSEX AREA, BY MAKING GRANTS AND PROVIDING SERVICES2. THE PROMOTION OF THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES AND THE EFFECTIVE USE OF RESOURCES FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE SUSSEX AREA, BY MAKING GRANTS AND PROVIDING SERVICES.‘THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR’ MEANS CHARITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS.• CHARITIES ARE ORGANISATIONS, WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES.• VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS ARE INDEPENDENT ORGANISATIONS, WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR PURPOSES THAT ADD VALUE TO THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE, OR A SIGNIFICANT SECTION OF THE COMMUNITY, AND WHICH ARE NOT PERMITTED BY THEIR CONSTITUTION TO MAKE A PROFIT FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION. VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS DONOT INCLUDE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OR OTHER STATUTORY AUTHORITIES.

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: Crawley, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £15,921 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted reserves of £8,833. The trustees note that they are looking at ways to increase reserves to meet their policy target of six months' core costs, indicating current reserves are below the stated policy level.

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 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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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 31/03/2021 (received 18/03/2022, 46 days after the 31/01/2022 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — RPD Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DARREN HARDINGchair
• CHRISTINE CHESHIRE
• Matthew Tyson
• Philip Hayden
• Richard Pollins
• Steven Robert Sawyer

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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 DHD FOUNDATION.

• DHD FOUNDATION income £106k
• RIPON AND DISTRICT SCOUTS income £36k
• SUSTAINABILITY DEVELOPMENT income £63k
• VOLUNTARY SECTOR CENTRES income £1.7m
• SALFORD COMMUNITY & VOLUNTARY SERVICES income £6.4m
• ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS SCARBOROUGH AND DISTRICT BRANCH income £63k

Side by side with its peers

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