HEREFORD CENTRE FOR NATURAL HEALTH

Registered charity 516988 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity provides premises and services for practitoners and therapies, answers queries about natural and alternative medicine and participates in events which provide information in this field to the public.

Objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ARE: (I) THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS BY THE PRACTICE, SUPPORT OF PROMOTION OF ALL METHODS OF HEALING AND NATURAL THERAPEUTICS DESIGNED TO RELIEVE HUMAN SUFFERING AND DISTRESS. (II) RESEARCH INTO THE TRAINING OF STUDENTS IN ALL SUCH METHODS OF HEALING AND NATURAL THERAPEUTICS, AND FOR PUBLICATION OFSUCH RESEARCH.

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: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £3,453 for the year ended 31 March 2025, reducing its unrestricted fund balance from £75,272 to £71,819. The trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Reserves were drawn down from a previous level of £12,000 to cover recent costs, with a target of £7,500 now being established.

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.

• Bullying and harassment 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr BRUCE FRASERchair
• DR P OVERSTALL
• JANET ANN JAMES
• Julia Mae Goodridge
• Phyllis Steele
• RUTH KETTEL

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

Operates in: Herefordshire

Income and spending

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