THE EASTER TEAM

Registered charity 1194018 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Easter Team helps families and individuals in crisis in the Crawley area by providing and distributing food parcels.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE EASTER TEAM ARE THE PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF POVERTY IN CRAWLEY AND THE SURROUNDING AREA BY PROVIDING FOOD, OTHER HELP AND SMALL GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND TO CHARITIES AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS THAT ARE WORKING TO PREVENT AND RELIEVE POVERTY.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Crawley, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £29,508 for the year, with total income of £69,323 against total expenditure of £98,831. Despite the deficit, the charity held total funds of £72,688 at year-end, comprising £70,266 in unrestricted funds and £2,422 in restricted funds. The accounts were subject to an independent examination which reported no material matters requiring attention.

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 3 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Cooperative Community Fund — “We are delighted to have been chosen to benefit from the Cooperative Community Fund for a year.” (source page)

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/10/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sharon Mary Golightlychair · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Robert Lodemore · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul William Davies
• Rosemary Helen Benwell

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• John Robert Lodemore — trustee here and at THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF FURNACE GREEN ST. ANDREW

Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TEAM EVIE.

• TEAM EVIE income £108k
• EXETER NETWORK CHURCH income £419k
• NEWFIELD COMMUNITY CHURCH TRUST income £71k
• THE EXETER ICE CHARITABLE TRUST income £77k
• EQUIPE income £42k
• TEAMS4U THE CHARITY income £414k

Side by side with its peers

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