IPSWICH17 GOOD NEIGHBOUR SCHEME

Registered charity 1188755 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as IP17GNS

TO PROVIDE RELIEF TO THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF THEIR AGE, ILL HEALTH, DISABILITY, SOCIAL ISOLATION OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, BY MEANS OF PRACTICAL SERVICES, INFORMATION AND ADVICE AND SIGNPOSTING TO OTHER AGENCIES.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THOSE PEOPLE IN SAXMUNDHAM AND KELSALE-CUM-CARLTON IN EAST SUFFOLK WHO ARE IN NEED, BY REASON OF THEIR AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL THINK FIT, WITH PARTICULAR FOCUS ON PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO THOSE AFFECTED BY CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) IN THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE AND FOLLOWING ANY PANDEMIC

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported an overall excess of receipts over payments of £9,392 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted funds decreasing from £43,307 to £38,956. The trustees are actively seeking further grants and funding to support overheads and ensure financial stability, noting that overheads have stabilised since moving to new premises. The charity holds a premises license liability of £27,000 over the next five years and is hopeful of gaining support from the Sizewell C Community Fund.

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.

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
• 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 expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Timothy Edward Robertschair
• Jacqueline Ann Newvell
• Peter Wiliam Ewart

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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