CALCUTTA RESCUE FUND

Registered charity 290917 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Donations & subscriptions are raised in the UK & applied for the relief of poverty sickness & advancement of education among the poor who live in & around Kolkata.

Objects

FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AMONGST PERSONS RESIDENT IN CALCUTTA AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS.

Area of benefit: CALCUTTA AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported total income of £185,606 and held unrestricted cash reserves of £262,220 at the end of the financial year. The trustees noted that funding to their partner charity was paused in December 2024 due to governance problems and a decline in project functioning. Despite these challenges, the charity confirmed it had no material matters of concern identified by its independent examiner.

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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Calcutta Rescue Fund (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2021)

Reported reserves equal ~4.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/01/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• PENNY NETTELFIELDchair
• ANGUS JAMES KELTON KIRK
• DOREEN ELIZABETH WALFORD
• David Hollanders
• Dr Alan Jeffrey Schamroth
• Dr Moona Banerji
• JENNY KERR-DAVIS
• KAREN ANN GLEAVE
• MR ROBIN JAMES
• Nirmalya Chakraborty · trustee of 1 other charity
• SEAN DUGGAN
• Suzanne Nichola Williams

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

Operates in: India · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WEST BENGAL CHARITY FOUNDATION.

• WEST BENGAL CHARITY FOUNDATION income £469k
• AL KHALIL EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL CENTRE income £58k
• PROJECT MALA CHARITABLE TRUST income £218k
• MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY OF MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA TRUST income £1.0m
• THE PURI FOUNDATION income £5.3m
• DARUL ULOOM MOEENUL THAM income £110k

Side by side with its peers

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