S.A.F.E. ESSEX (SUPPORTING ASPERGER FAMILIES IN ESSEX)

Registered charity 1188739 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

SAFE provides a range of activities for children and adults with Asperger Syndrome, these include SAFE Stuff, SAFE Youth Activity Club, Hub Club Southend (run in conjunction with Southend Borough Council Early Help Community Team), A.S.A.P. (Asperger Syndrome Adults and Parents), we also have a group for Women only, and other support group meetings.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND DISTRESS, AND ADVANCE THE EDUCATION, OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS WITH ASPERGER SYNDROME (AND CONDITIONS RELATED TO ASPERGER SYNDROME) AND THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds decreased from £30,177 to £20,402 due to a net outgoing resource of £9,775, driven by charitable expenditure exceeding incoming resources. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £6,949, which the trustees have considered in their going concern assessment. No specific reserves policy target is stated in the document to compare against these figures.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/01/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Norman MBEchair
• Chris Sorrell
• FERN POTTER · trustee of 2 other charities
• Keir Bancroft
• Peter Neale
• Shaila Evennett
• Tim Rennie

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).