SOCIAL WORKERS BENEVOLENT TRUST

Registered charity 262889 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Helps social workers who are experiencing financial difficulties because of sickness, bereavement, family difficulties, increasing frailty or sudden catastrophe.

Objects

FOR THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE OR WHO HAVE BEEN ENGAGED IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIAL WORK AND THE WIVES WIDOWS CHILDREN AND OTHER DEPENDANTS OF SUCH PERSONS BEING IN NEED OF RELIEF.

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: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total unrestricted funds decreased from £390,584 to £385,593 due to charitable expenditure exceeding income. The trustees maintain a reserves policy targeting one year of unanticipated activity, supported by investment income and grants from BASW and the CSIS Charity Fund.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Dains Audit Limited. Discloses 5 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.

• 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
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Priscilla Kurewachair
• Chris MacDonald
• Denise Anne Ware
• Helen Susanne Smith
• Kay Suzanne Waters
• Mama Addo-Yobo
• Rashid Kayiira
• Robert Pook
• Simon Scott · trustee of 3 other charities
• Tina Philp

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.

• THE BENEVOLENT SOCIETY income £149k
• BESTOBELL-MEGGITT WELFARE TRUST income £48k
• CAMBRIDGESHIRE COMMUNITY SERVICES NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUNDS income £88k
• SUPPORT THE CHARITY WORKER income £991k
• SOCIAL BUSINESS TRUST income £7.1m
• THE B S CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £257k

Side by side with its peers

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