THE SERCO PEOPLE FUND

Registered charity 1194113 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Serco People Fund supports Serco colleagues and their close families facing extraordinary financial challenges. The People Fund embraces Serco's value of Care, providing support to colleagues and their families in times of need. As an independent charity we do this by providing grants in response to applications from colleagues and, where helpful, connecting them to other assistance.

Objects

For the public benefit, to relieve poverty, directly or indirectly, among current employees or retired employees of Serco (or its associated businesses) and their dependants or immediate relatives (which shall mean spouses, children and grandchildren).

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £2,296,655, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover operations for the next 24 months. The charity has no employees and no ongoing financial commitments, relying on a one-off donation and investment income to fund its charitable activities. The trustees report that the current forecasting predicts cash reserves will be more than enough to continue operations.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Serco People Fund (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~234.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• STEPHEN JAMES GRASSBYchair
• Jacqueline Planner
• Mark Withecombe
• Sarah Bartram
• Stevie-Louise Williams
• Thomas Walton

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

Operates in: Australia · Throughout England And Wales · United Arab Emirates

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PRISON SERVICE CHARITY FUND.

• PRISON SERVICE CHARITY FUND income £170k
• CARE WORKERS SUPPORT income £1.3m
• SEREN FFESTINIOG CYF. income £2.8m
• FORCES SUPPORT LIMITED income £2.3m
• SEFTON CARERS CENTRE income £2.2m
• THE ASSIST FUND income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.