POP ESSEX

Registered charity 1201653 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

POP Essex focuses on providing services for children and young adults with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and their families, centred in and around Braintree Essex.

Objects

1.OBJECTSTHE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE FOR THE RELIEF OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES IN BRAINTREE, CHELMSFORD, COLCHESTER, WITHAM, MALDON, UTTLESFORD AND SURROUNDING AREAS, FIRST BY PROVIDING INFORMATION, SUPERVISED RECREATION, PRE-SCHOOL SERVICES, RESPITE AND SUPPORT FOR SUCH CHILDREN AND FOR THEIR PARENTS, FAMILIES AND CARERS, SO THAT THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH CHILDREN, PARENTS, FAMILIES AND CARERS, MAY BE IMPROVED; AND SECOND THROUGH EDUCATION, DEVELOPING INDIVIDUAL CAPABILITIES, COMPETENCIES, SKILLS AND CAPACITIES.NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CIO FOR THE PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CHARITIES ACT 2011.

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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Registered contact address: Colchester, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £10,082 on a turnover of £121,692 for the year ended 30 April 2025. The trustees consider this result satisfactory for a new charity and believe it places the organization in a good position to fund further development. The document notes that the charity has been focused on running with minimal fixed costs and has no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Paying staff
• 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

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 14209838 · Financial health read from its filings

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• FORDHAM, Shelly Rebecca — director, appointed 01/04/2025on trustee list
• BARLOW, Carly Leanne — director, appointed 07/04/2024on trustee list
• YATES, James Michael — director, appointed 14/06/2023on trustee list
• HUGHES, Keir Thomas — director, appointed 01/09/2022not on trustee list
• RIORDAN, Mary Siobhan — director, appointed 17/08/2022on trustee list
• CARR, Matthew Antony — director, appointed 01/07/2022on trustee list
• MEAD, Noel Arthur — secretary, appointed 01/07/2022

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Matthew CARRchair
• Carly Barlow
• James YATES
• Keir Thomas HUGHES FCCA
• Mary Siobahn RIORDAN
• Shelly Fordham

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

Operates in: Essex

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 FAMILIES INFOCUS (ESSEX).

• FAMILIES INFOCUS (ESSEX) income £387k
• EXTRA - SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES income £187k
• POP ARTS income £48k
• LITTLE EDI FOUNDATION income £74k
• SCOPE WEST SUSSEX income £402k
• GRAPEVINE ESSEX income £84k

Side by side with its peers

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