MELBOURNE AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY CARE

Registered charity 1191520 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To relieve sick, elderly or disabled persons resident in Melbourne and nearby villages by providing or assisting in the provision of services calculated to reduce the need, hardship or distress of such persons.

Objects

TO RELIEVE SICK, ELDERLY OR DISABLED PERSONS RESIDENT IN MELBOURNE AND NEARBY VILLAGES BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF SERVICES CALCULATED TO REDUCE THE NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS OF SUCH PERSONS.

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 the charity had no reserves at the end of the period. The independent examiner noted that it was not possible to verify cash in hand balances and highlighted uncleared items, but confirmed no other material matters required attention for a proper understanding of the accounts.

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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/09/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Philip Dobbychair
• Alan John Corbett
• BRIAN STANLEY DOLLAMORE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr James Long
• Jacqueline Edwards
• Jane Dunster Carroll
• Kevin Andrew Crisp

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

Operates in: Derbyshire

Income and spending

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