Connect Reading
Charity number: 1113150
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
Connect Reading connects organisations across communities & sectors to benefit Greater Reading. Members share resources & expertise to reduce poverty, inequality & unemployment advance education improve health & wellbeing preserve the environment & reduce the impacts of climate change. How? By engaging companies, charities, education & public sector to catalyse collaboration & innovation.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 31 March 2024
Total income: £89,394
Total expenditure: £100,919
Total income includes £12,000 from 1 government contract(s)
People
8 Trustee(s)
71 Volunteer(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charityFundraising
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
What the charity does:
- General Charitable Purposes
- Education/training
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
- Recreation
- Other Charitable Purposes
Who the charity helps:
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People With Disabilities
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- Other Defined Groups
- The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Services
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
- Other Charitable Activities
Where the charity operates:
- Bracknell Forest
- Reading
- West Berkshire
- Wokingham
Governance
Registration history:
- 03 March 2006: Standard registration
Organisation type:
Charitable company
Other names:
- CONNECT READING (Working name)
- RBCP (Previous name)
- READING BUSINESS COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP LIMITED (Previous name)
Company number:
Gift aid:
Recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
- 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
- Paying staff
- 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
- Volunteer management
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
8 Trustee(s)
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| Danielle Hinds | Chair | 31 January 2025 |
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| Jaclyn Nicole Le Grand | Trustee | 31 January 2025 |
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| Graham Lunt | Trustee | 31 January 2025 |
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| Cecilia Maclaren | Trustee | 31 January 2025 |
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| Jonathan Seth Russell | Trustee | 18 July 2022 |
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| Rodrigo Perez Vega | Trustee | 18 July 2022 |
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| John Charles Pickford | Trustee | 05 February 2021 |
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| TRACEY ESSERY | Trustee | 26 June 2014 |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 31/03/2020 | 31/03/2021 | 31/03/2022 | 31/03/2023 | 31/03/2024 | ||
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Total gross income | £46.32k | £47.03k | £76.73k | £113.66k | £89.39k | |
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Total expenditure | £49.21k | £61.45k | £90.09k | £123.19k | £100.92k | |
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Income from government contracts | N/A | N/A | N/A | £5.00k | £12.00k | |
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Income from government grants | N/A | £8.35k | £18.85k | £18.84k | 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 |
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| Annual return | 31 March 2024 | 31 January 2025 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2024 | 31 January 2025 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2023 | 27 November 2023 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2023 | 27 November 2023 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2022 | 20 December 2022 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2022 | 20 December 2022 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2021 | 30 July 2021 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2021 | 30 July 2021 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2020 | 08 December 2020 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2020 | 08 December 2020 | On Time | Download Open in new window |