HIGH WYCOMBE CENTRAL AID SOCIETY

Registered charity 201445 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CENTRAL AID, CENTRAL AID SOC

The objective of the Charity is to provide assistance to the needy in High Wycombe and the surrounding area. We achieve this objective by providing low cost furniture and white goods to those on a limited income, granting furniture and white goods to those in crisis and providing work experience and skills to those facing disadvantage. (In April2025 the charity started to convert to CIO 1212511)

Objects

TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO THE NEEDY IN HIGH WYCOMBE AND SURROUNDING AREA BOTH BY ITS OWN EFFORTS AND THROUGH CO-OPERATION WITH OTHER VOLUNTARY AND OFFICIAL AGENCIES.

Area of benefit: HIGH WYCOMBE.

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Buckinghamshire, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £585,157, which exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of £128,000. 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 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Hypnos — “Hypnos for providing plastic mattress covers to protect furnishings” (source page)
• Anson Trust — “Anson Trust donation towards small electric van” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOHN GEOFFREY PEARSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• MARGARET STAGG · trustee of 4 other charities
• TODD RICKETTS · trustee of 1 other charity
• WILLIAM GEORGE REID · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with KING'S CHURCH,HIGH WYCOMBE.

• KING'S CHURCH,HIGH WYCOMBE income £1.1m
• WYCOMBE REFUGEE PARTNERSHIP income £62k
• HIGHCROFT COMMUNITY CENTRE CIO income £47k
• WICKHAM COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £377k
• HEMMINGWELL COMMUNITY AND SKILLS CENTRE CIO income £108k
• WESTCOMBE FOUNDATION income £251k

Side by side with its peers

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