THE GATHERING PLACE

Registered charity 1189467 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We utilise boots-on-the-ground processes to restore hope and encourage those in need. Whether it's providing personal protective equipment (PPE) to NHS staff, care packages and warm clothing to hospital wards, or by giving a rough sleeper a warm cup of coffee, toiletries, or blankets, we offer our services free of charge in a non-judgmental, non-invasive environment.

Objects

THE PREVENTION, RELIEF AND SUPPORT OF THOSE TRAPPED IN POVERTY CYCLES AND THOSE IN NEED THROUGHOUT SWANSEA / SOUTH WALES BY PROVIDING ITEMS, RESOURCES, AND COUNSELLING SERVICES. WE ENCOURAGE AND TRAIN VOLUNTEERS AND LOCAL LEADERS AND NETWORK WITH REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS TO DIRECTLY IMPACT THE LOCAL COMMUNITY.

Area of benefit: THROUGHOUT SWANSEA / SOUTH WALES

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operates entirely through volunteers with no paid staff or trustee remuneration. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves were £4,878 at the end of the period, which is below the stated policy target of £6,000. The charity reports stable core services and secured funding for new initiatives, indicating no immediate financial risk to its continuation.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• KENNETH ARRINGTONchair
• Brent Clifford Hemus
• Katherine Jenkins-Sojko

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

Operates in: Bridgend · City Of Swansea · Neath Port Talbot

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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