PRISON ADVICE AND CARE TRUST (PACT)

Registered charity 219278 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7245728 · Wikipedia · also known as THE BOURNE TRUST, THE CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICE FOR PRISONERS

Pact supports people affected by imprisonment to cope and to make a fresh start, including prisoners, people with convictions, their children and families. Our work reduces harm and reoffending. We work in prisons of all types, in courts and in communities. We reduce the risk of suicide and self-harm, safeguard children and vulnerable adults, and maintain and strengthen family relationships.

Objects

1. TO PROVIDE ADVICE, INFORMATION AND SUPPORT TO PEOPLE WHO ARE SUFFERING OR WHO HAVE SUFFERED A LEGAL RESTRICTION ON THEIR LIBERTY IN ANY PENAL OR CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION.2. TO PROVIDE ADVICE, INFORMATION AND SUPPORT TO FAMILIES AND CHILDREN OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SUFFERING OR WHO HAVE SUFFERED A LEGAL RESTRICTION ON THEIR LIBERTY IN ANY PENAL OR CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION.3. TO WORK FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS AND ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR OFFENDERS, EX-OFFENDERS, THEIR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved an overall surplus of £177,000 for the year ended 31 March 2026, marking a turnaround from previous deficits. Per the trustees' report, total unrestricted funds available for general purposes were £1,221,000, which is below the newly approved target reserve range of £1,440,000 to £1,650,000. The trustees consider there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe. Discloses 3 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
• Investment
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00356443 · Financial health read from its filings
• Trading subsidiary: PACT FUTURES COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY Companies House 09248698

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Prison Advice and Care Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• MASTERS, Marianna — director, appointed 21/07/2026on trustee list
• GILLESPIE, Patrick John — director, appointed 17/11/2025on trustee list
• CLAYTON-HOAR, Helen Elizabeth — director, appointed 24/07/2024on trustee list
• MCMANUS, James Gough — director, appointed 28/02/2024on trustee list
• SANDHU, Kuljit Kaur — director, appointed 20/09/2023on trustee list
• BRADFORD, Steven — director, appointed 12/10/2022on trustee list
• HORSTED, James — director, appointed 06/07/2022on trustee list
• ROBERTSON, Carolyn Maria Elizabeth — director, appointed 06/07/2022on trustee list
• METCALF, Cleo Adele — director, appointed 30/09/2020on trustee list
• GORDON, Alastair Neil — director, appointed 06/11/2019on trustee list
• LEMAN, Thomas Ross — director, appointed 06/11/2019on trustee list
• HARRIOTT, Paula — director, appointed 03/07/2019on trustee list
• KEEN-DOWNS, Andrew — secretary, appointed 03/05/2005

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~1.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/11/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (22/07/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/01/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/12/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/05/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor James McManuschair
• Alastair Gordon
• Carolyn Maria Elizabeth Robertson
• Cleo Adele Metcalf
• Helen Clayton-Hoar
• James Horsted
• Kuljit Sandhu
• Marianna Masters
• Patrick Gillespie
• Paula Harriott
• Steven Bradford
• Thomas Leman

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PARTNERS OF PRISONERS AND FAMILIES SUPPORT GROUP.

• PARTNERS OF PRISONERS AND FAMILIES SUPPORT GROUP income £2.1m
• PEOPLE FOR ANIMAL CARE TRUST (PACT) income £2.7m
• PRISONERS' ADVICE SERVICE income £625k
• PRISONERS ABROAD income £1.8m
• CARE AFTER COMBAT income £973k
• PARCHMENT TRUST income £4.3m

Side by side with its peers

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