BARE NECESSITIES

Registered charity 1190827 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN ENGLAND BY PROVIDING UNDERWEAR (PANTS, SOCKS & BRAS) & SANITARY ITEMS TO INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE HOMELESS OR DESTITUTE AND/OR CHARITIES, OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY AMONG PEOPLE WHO ARE HOMELESS OR ARE OTHERWISE DESTITUTE.

Objects

THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN ENGLAND BY PROVIDING UNDERWEAR (PANTS, SOCKS & BRAS) TO INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE HOMELESS AND/OR CHARITIES, OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY AMONG PEOPLE WHO ARE HOMELESS.

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£645
Latest spending
£2k
Registered
2020

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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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 20/06/2024

  • Volunteers: 3

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 20/06/2023

  • Volunteers: 3

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 20/06/2023 (received 02/09/2024, 135 days after the 20/04/2024 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.

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Suffolk

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
20/06/2025£645£2k
20/06/2024£3k£4k
20/06/2023£3k£4k
20/06/2022£9k£2k
20/06/2021£4k£4k

Common questions

Who funds BARE NECESSITIES?

Funders whose own accounts filings name BARE NECESSITIES as a grant recipient include THE GEOFFREY AND PAULINE MARTIN TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE GEOFFREY AND PAULINE MARTIN TRUSTFY2024£5k
THE GEOFFREY AND PAULINE MARTIN TRUSTFY2025£5k