RURAL COMMUNITY ACTION NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

Registered charity 519405 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NOTTINGHAMSHIRE RURAL COMMUNITY COUNCIL

RCAN works to create strong and inclusive rural communities in which social disadvantage is addressed to create an equitable, sustainable, open and prosperous society.We do this by working with local community groups, encouraging enterprise, promoting equality of opportunity for all, speaking out on rural issues.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE COUNTY OF/LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICT OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE (HEREINAFTER CALLED 'THE AREA OF BENEFIT') AND, IN PARTICULAR, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS PLEASE SEE CLAUSE 3 OF MEMOR & ARTS)

Area of benefit: COUNTY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a small surplus for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted reserves of £315,032. This position meets the trustees' stated reserves policy target of retaining two months' operating expenditure in free reserves. The charity also holds a significant pension scheme surplus of £244,000, contributing to total net assets of £849,032.

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 6 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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
• Volunteer management

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/03/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ADAM WHITCHURCH
• Cllr Seamus Martin Creamer · trustee of 3 other charities
• Maurice Arthur Shakeshaft
• Simon Patrick Tipping · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: Nottinghamshire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NORTHAMPTONSHIRE ACRE.

• NORTHAMPTONSHIRE ACRE income £363k
• COMMUNITY ACTION HAMPSHIRE income £936k
• COMMUNITY ACTION NORFOLK income £559k
• RURAL COMMUNITY COUNCIL (LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND) income £802k
• THE RURAL COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF ESSEX income £1.7m
• Community Action Network income £1.0m

Side by side with its peers

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