GAINSBOROUGH MEN'S SHED

Registered charity 1205087 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GREENER GAINSBOROUGH

We provide a safe, welcoming space in Gainsborough where adults can meet, reduce loneliness and improve well-being. We offer creative, physical and recreational activities, opportunities to learn and share skills, and social support for people experiencing isolation due to age, ill health, bereavement, unemployment or financial hardship.

Objects

1. To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people particularly but not exclusively men aged 18 or over and women, within Gainsborough from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society through the provision of facilities in which they can meet jointly or individually to undertake creative, physical or recreational activities, learn or pass on skills and knowledge and support each other socially. for the purpose of this clause 'socially excluded' means being excluded from society, or parts of society, as a result of one of more of the following factors: unemployment; financial hardship; youth or old age; ill health (physical or mental).2. TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR INDIVIDUALS IN GAINSBOROUGH AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS.

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: West Lindsey, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported total income of £35,466 and total expenditure of £28,205, resulting in a net surplus for the year. Unrestricted cash reserves stood at £8,274, which the trustees describe as modest but increasing, against a policy target of three to twelve months of running costs. The accounts were subject to an independent examination, which found no material matters requiring disclosure.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ian Burgess · trustee of 3 other charities
• Nigel Bowler
• Sandra Kemp
• Sheila Goodall

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

Operates in: Lincolnshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CAERAU MEN'S SHED.

• CAERAU MEN'S SHED income £58k
• NORWICH MEN'S SHED income £82k
• UK MEN'S SHEDS ASSOCIATION income £742k
• SHREWSBURY MEN'S SHED income £55k
• PORINGLAND & DISTRICT MEN'S SHED income £35k
• MEN'S SHED KNUTSFORD income £187k

Side by side with its peers

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