MUNICIPAL CHARITIES

Registered charity 200566 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BEDFORD MUNICIPAL CHARITIES

To assist people within the area of benefit who are in conditions of need, hardship or distress

Objects

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Area of benefit: BOROUGH OF NORTH BEDFORDSHIRE

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 · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held total available funds of £1,614,187 at the end of the period, comprising unrestricted funds of £1,548,305 and restricted funds of £65,882. Net income for the year was £10,036, driven by investment income that exceeded expenditure. The document notes that the value of transactions was beneath the threshold to require an audit of its accounts.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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 policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/10/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (05/07/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• COUNCILLOR Jon Abbottchair
• Councillor Caroline White
• Councillor Jonathan Gambold
• Councillor Nicola Gribble
• Councillor Robert Rigby
• Honorary Alderman John Mingay
• Honorary Alderman Roger Rigby
• Lynn McKenna

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

Operates in: Bedford

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MUNICIPAL GENERAL CHARITY.

• MUNICIPAL GENERAL CHARITY income £44k
• SUPPORTING COMMUNITIES income £176k
• THE M Y A CHARITABLE TRUST income £88k
• CHARITY ESTATE income £32k
• CAMBRIDGE AID income £135k
• COMMUNITY MONEY ADVICE LTD income £512k

Side by side with its peers

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