ABBEYFIELD BRAINTREE, BOCKING AND FELSTED SOCIETY LIMITED

Registered charity 257782 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ABBEYFIELD BRAINTREE AND BOCKING SOCIETY LIMITED

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Latest income
£4.0m
Latest spending
£3.5m
Registered
1969
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £293,603 for the year ended 31 March 2024, reversing a prior year deficit. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £5,853,762, with free reserves exceeding £2 million, which is above the stated policy target of six months' gross rental and service charge income.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: six months’ gross rental and service charge income (held: £5.9m)
The Board has established a policy whereby the unrestricted funds not committed or invested in tangible assets ('free reserves’) held by the Society should be equivalent of at least six months’ gross rental and service charge income. — page 11
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Sumer Auditco Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Total income
£5k
Total spending
£3.5m
Reserves (reported)
£6.2m
Employees
113

Reported reserves equal ~21.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

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Trustees

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Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£4.0m£3.5m
31/03/2024£3.8m£3.6m
31/03/2023£3.2m£3.4m
31/03/2022£1.7m£1.5m
31/03/2021£1.5m£1.4m

Common questions

Is ABBEYFIELD BRAINTREE, BOCKING AND FELSTED SOCIETY LIMITED financially healthy?

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £293,603 for the year ended 31 March 2024, reversing a prior year deficit. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £5,853,762, with free reserves exceeding £2 million, which is above the stated policy target of six months' gross rental and service charge income. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by Sumer Auditco Limited.