TOUCHPOINT

Registered charity 1194098 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Touchpoint operates a community hub, well-being initiative, and free foodshare project. Based in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, we serve local towns and villages in Uttlesford, Essex and Hertfordshire. Working with specialist partners we facilitate and deliver an array of services addressing issues around mental health, social isolation, physical well-being and financial stress.

Objects

The provision of community facilities, primarily in Uttlesford, Essex and Hertfordshire, in the interests of improving the wellbeing of persons who by reason of age, poverty or social and economic circumstances will benefit from them, specifically but not limited to:The prevention and relief of poverty and the preservation and promotion of good health, nutrition and social inclusion in such ways as the trustees may at their discretion think fit, including:1) the collection and redistribution of surplus food;2) the provision of support related to preparedness for the entry or return to the workplace; and3) the encouragement and organisation of members of the public to undertake voluntary charitable work.To promote for the benefit of the public the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment through the reduction of waste (in particular food waste) and increasing knowledge and understanding of its adverse environmental impacts.

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 is a volunteer-led organisation with more than 200 active volunteers providing significant value, while employing only two paid staff members appointed in 2024 and 2025. Per the trustees' report, the charity faces significant challenges due to reduced government funding and competition for grants, though it has secured specific donations such as a £50,000 award for community hub refurbishment.

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
• 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 fundraising profile: JustGiving — Touchpoint (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/11/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Edward William Welch
• Elissa Faye Burgoine
• Fiona Louise Venus
• Laura Johnson
• Paul Andrew Livingstone-Chambers
• RICHARD PETER JONES · trustee of 2 other charities
• Richard John Pink

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

Operates in: Essex · Hertfordshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TOUCHSTONE-LEEDS.

• TOUCHSTONE-LEEDS income £10.3m
• TOUCHBASE CARE income £577k
• CENTREPOINT OUTREACH income £224k
• THE COUNSELLING HUB income £118k
• MEETING POINT TRUST LIMITED income £445k
• TURNING POINT income £192.5m

Side by side with its peers

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