BLACKDOWN SUPPORT GROUP

Registered charity 1208925 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Blackdown Hills is a very rural area on the Devon/Somerset border with poor transport links. We aim to connect people to their communities, alleviate isolation and improve health and wellbeing. We run a community transport scheme, regular social groups, volunteer visiting, bereavement and carer support services, form filling support, toenail cutting, accessible vehicle and wheelchair loan.

Objects

"THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT GOOD HEALTH AND TO PROMOTE INDEPENDENCE AND WELLBEING AMONG PEOPLE BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF SERVICES NOT NORMALLY PROVIDED BY THE STATUTORY AUTHORITIES"

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £20,460 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by increased staff and office costs following the purchase of new premises. Per the trustees' report, free reserves decreased significantly to £166,209 from £569,013 in the prior year due to the sale of investments to fund the property purchase. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's 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 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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Blackdown Support Group (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £380k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Barry Simmonds
• Christopher George Roffe-Silvester
• Dr David Howard Major
• Gillian Nicola Girling
• Heather Alice Stallard
• Lisa Anne Martin
• Mark Roberts
• Martin Roger Saxton
• Nichola Ann Dowson
• Sarah Frances Folland · trustee of 1 other charity
• WILLIAM PHILIP MORRIS

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

Operates in: Devon · Somerset

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 THE BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTRE.

• THE BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTRE income £178k
• COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF DEVON income £791k
• DOWNLANDS TRUST income £557k
• THE CORTON HILL TRUST income £933k
• BLACKDOWN DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £163k
• WEST OF ENGLAND RURAL NETWORK income £527k

Side by side with its peers

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