SAFE PARTNERSHIP LIMITED

Registered charity 297903 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as JOHN MCCARTHY FOUNDATION, THE MCCARTHY FOUNDATION

Safe Partnership provides home security surveys, target hardening, safe rooms and sanctuaries UK wide, Our charity works with local authorities, housing associations and partner charities to provide services at no cost to the survivor.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF OLD AGE, YOUTH, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE OR CRIME AND THOSE IN FEAR OF VIOLENCE OR CRIME) BY THE PROVISION OF HELP, SUPPORT, ASSISTANCE AND ADVICE:TO AVOID BECOMING A VICTIM OF VIOLENCE OR CRIME;TO ADDRESS THE FEAR OF VIOLENCE OR CRIME; ANDTO REDUCE THE DISTRESS, POVERTY AND OTHER HARDSHIP THAT RESULTS FROM BEING THE VICTIM OF VIOLENCE OR CRIME

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.

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Registered contact address: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £78,767 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £679,907 against expenditure of £596,469. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £429,784, which the trustees consider sufficient to maintain operations for three months of expenditure. The trustees identified the non-renewal of key contracts as the principal financial risk but noted that resources were focused on frontline delivery to maximize public benefit.

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 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.

• 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

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2021 (received 30/03/2022, 58 days after the 31/01/2022 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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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: 2.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Angela Elisabeth Cravenchair
• Bethany Jean Manning
• Cherise Luke-Bennett
• Katie o'connell

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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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ASSOCIATION OF SAFEGUARDING PARTNERS.

• THE ASSOCIATION OF SAFEGUARDING PARTNERS income £95k
• SAFE GROUND income £659k
• RECOVERY PARTNERS LIMITED income £84k
• THE PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION income £145k
• STEP BY STEP PARTNERSHIP LIMITED income £4.6m
• WORTHING COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP income £47k

Side by side with its peers

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