AVON AND SOMERSET CONSTABULARY BENEVOLENT FUND

Charity number: 1085497
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)

Charity overview

Activities - how the charity spends its money

To relieve by grants or loans or otherwise necessitous members of (i) The Avon and Somerset Constabulary (ii) Pensioned members of the Constabulary and former constituent forces of the constabulary, together with necessitous widows and dependants of any such persons.

Income and expenditure

Data for financial year ending 30 December 2024

Total income: £26,482
Total expenditure: £112,483

People

11 Trustee(s)

11 Volunteer(s)

Employees with total benefits over £60,000

No information available

Fundraising

No information available

Trading

This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.

Trustee payments

No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.

What, who, how, where

Main way of carrying out purposes is grant making
What the charity does:
  • General Charitable Purposes
Who the charity helps:
  • Other Defined Groups
How the charity helps:
  • Makes Grants To Individuals
  • Provides Other Finance
Where the charity operates:
  • Bath And North East Somerset
  • Bristol City
  • North Somerset
  • Somerset
  • South Gloucestershire

Governance

Registration history:
  • 12 March 2001: Standard registration
Organisation type:
Charitable company
Other names:

No other names

Company number:
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Gift aid:
Recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • 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
  • Investment
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Land and property:
This charity does not own and/or lease land or property

Trustees

Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service

11 Trustee(s)

Name Role Date of appointment Other trusteeships Reporting status of other trusteeships
Sarah Jane Crew Chair 26 July 2021
None on record
Mary Lucy Wyatt Trustee 06 October 2025
None on record
Thomas Gent Trustee 09 December 2024
None on record
Marc Flavell Trustee 04 November 2024
None on record
Anthony Blatchford Trustee 04 November 2024
None on record
Caroline McKinnell Trustee 14 September 2023
None on record
Richard WAND Trustee 07 April 2022
None on record
Simon Lancey Trustee 07 April 2022
None on record
Mark Peter Edgington Trustee 09 December 2021
None on record
Simon Cleiton JEWELL Trustee 20 October 2020
None on record
Karen Michelle CORRIGAN Trustee 18 July 2018
None on record

Financial history

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Financial period end date

Income / Expenditure 31/12/2020 31/12/2021 30/12/2022 30/12/2023 30/12/2024
Total gross income £39.16k £33.83k £37.37k £45.91k £26.48k
Total expenditure £34.64k £24.26k £59.13k £55.54k £112.48k
Income from government contracts N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Income from government grants N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Accounts and annual returns

This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
Title Reporting year Date received Received Download
Annual return 30 December 2024 06 August 2025 On time
Accounts and TAR 30 December 2024 06 August 2025 On time
Annual return 30 December 2023 21 October 2024 On time
Accounts and TAR 30 December 2023 21 October 2024 On time
Annual return 30 December 2022 03 October 2023 On time
Accounts and TAR 30 December 2022 03 October 2023 On time
Annual return 31 December 2021 04 November 2022 4 days late
Accounts and TAR 31 December 2021 04 November 2022 4 days late
Annual return 31 December 2020 07 October 2021 On time
Accounts and TAR 31 December 2020 07 October 2021 On time
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Governing document

Details of the type of governing document the charity has and when it was established.
It is not the full text of the charity's governing document.

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 7 SEPTEMBER 1999 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 12 FEBRUARY 2001. as amended on 17 May 2023

Charitable objects

The Objects of the Charity are the prevention or relief of poverty, suffering, distress, ill-health or financial hardship amongst the Beneficiaries, in particular but not exclusively by providing grants, loans and/or or such other financial assistance and support to those individuals in such ways as the Trustees see fit from time to time. [Relevant definitions: ‘Beneficiary’ and ‘Beneficiaries’ means the individual or individuals who qualify as beneficiaries of the Charity in accordance with the Objects, namely: (i) serving members of the Constabulary (each a Serving Member) and pensioned members of the Constabulary or of the Former Police Forces (each a Retired Member); (ii) any spouse, or civil partner (as such term is defined in section 350 of the Charities Act 2011) or any widow or widower of a Serving Member or a Retired Member; (iii) any other person who in the opinion of the Trustees is wholly or partly dependant of a Serving Member or a Retired Member; and (iv) such other categories of persons closely connected to the Constabulary which the Trustees shall from time to time determine; ‘the Constabulary’ means the Avon and Somerset Constabulary; ‘Former Police Forces’ means the following former police constabularies: (i) Bath City Police; (ii) Bristol Constabulary; (iii) Somerset Constabulary; and (iv) Somerset and Bath Constabulary;]

Area of benefit

The area the charity can operate in, as set out in its governing document.

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE, BANES, BRISTOL, NORTH SOMERSET & SOMERSET.

Contact information

Address:
Avon & Somerset Police Authority
Valley Road
Portishead
BRISTOL
BS20 8JJ
Phone:
07889659855
Email:
Benevolentfund@avonandsomerset.police.uk
Website:

No information available