ABBEYFIELD READING SOCIETY LTD

Registered charity 233423 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The company was dissolved via voluntary strike off on 31st March 2026.

Objects

TO RELIEVE AGED, IMPOTENT AND POOR PEOPLE FROM ALL CLASSES, FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION AND EDUCATION AND FOR OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY.

Area of benefit: READING AND DISTRICT

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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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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 03/02/2024, 3 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 07/03/2023, 35 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00701225 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• HUTCHINSON, Desmond Charles Fitzgerald — director, appointed 28/03/2022on trustee list
• THOMAS, Brian — director, appointed 28/03/2022on trustee list
• HUTCHINSON, Desmond Charles Fitzgerald — secretary, appointed 28/03/2022

Official officers record.

CQC provider record: Abbeyfield Reading Society Limited(The) — Deregistered, 1 registered location, last inspected 09/01/2019.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2022)

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.2% of total income.

Operates in: Reading

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.