FREE UK GENEALOGY

Charity number: 1167484
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)

Charity overview

Activities - how the charity spends its money

Promoting making historic records available as open data Developing open source tools for transcription and enhancement of OCR texts Providing databases of information and associated digitised images of historic records including the indexes to records of Birth, Marriage & Death (FreeBMD), Parish Registers and similar records (FreeREG), and Census records (FreeCEN)

Income and expenditure

Data for financial year ending 31 December 2023

Total income: £156,985
Total expenditure: £124,517

People

7 Trustee(s)

1028 Volunteer(s)

Employees with total benefits over £60,000

No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charity

Fundraising

No information available

Trading

One or more trustees are also directors of the 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
Who the charity helps:
  • The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
  • Provides Services
  • Provides Advocacy/advice/information
Where the charity operates:
  • Throughout England And Wales

Governance

Registration history:
  • 06 June 2016: CIO registration
Organisation type:
CIO
Other names:
  • FREEBMD (Working name)
  • FREECEN (Working name)
  • FREEREG (Working name)
  • FREE BIRTHS MARRIAGES AND DEATHS (Previous name)
Gift aid:
Recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls 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 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

7 Trustee(s)

Name Role Date of appointment Other trusteeships Reporting status of other trusteeships
ANDREW TURVEY Chair 13 April 2018
None on record
Ian Morris Clark Trustee 27 January 2024
None on record
Alan John Tyerman Trustee 27 January 2024
None on record
Nuala Patricia Clamp Trustee 27 January 2024
None on record
Alexandra Eveleigh Trustee 13 April 2018
None on record
Giorgio Abraini Trustee 07 August 2017
None on record
GRAHAM HART Trustee 06 June 2016
None on record

Financial history

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Financial period end date

Income / Expenditure 31/12/2019 31/12/2020 31/12/2021 31/12/2022 31/12/2023
Total gross income £124.24k £101.38k £89.00k £154.20k £156.99k
Total expenditure £150.62k £115.48k £119.46k £110.92k £124.52k
Income from government contracts N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Income from government grants N/A N/A £5.67k 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 31 December 2023 29 October 2024 On time
Accounts and TAR 31 December 2023 29 October 2024 On time
Annual return 31 December 2022 31 October 2023 On time
Accounts and TAR 31 December 2022 31 October 2023 On time
Annual return 31 December 2021 02 November 2022 2 days late
Accounts and TAR 31 December 2021 02 November 2022 2 days late
Annual return 31 December 2020 25 October 2021 On time
Accounts and TAR 31 December 2020 29 October 2021 On time
Annual return 31 December 2019 31 October 2020 On time
Accounts and TAR 31 December 2019 31 October 2020 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.

CIO - Foundation Registered 06 Jun 2016 as amended on 04 Mar 2024

Charitable objects

THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE TRUST FUND AND ITS INCOME FOR THE GENERAL BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY:- (A) SUBJECT TO THE CONSENT OF THE REGISTRAR GENERAL FOR ENGLAND AND WALES, THE PROVISION OF AN ELECTRONIC DATABASE AND ASSOCIATED DIGITISED IMAGES OF INFORMATION HELD IN THE INDEXES OF BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS HELD BY THE GENERAL REGISTER OFFICE OF ENGLAND AND WALES; (B) SUBJECT TO THE CONSENT OF THE RELEVANT AUTHORITY, THE PROVISION OF SIMILAR DATABASES OF INFORMATION AND ASSOCIATED DIGITISED IMAGES OF OTHER RECORDS OF GENEALOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE ( INCLUDING, BUT NOT RESTRICTED TO, PARISH REGISTERS, CENSUS RECORDS, ELECTORAL REGISTERS, DIRECTORIES AND WILLS).

Contact information

Address:
ALEXANDER BURSK
PARK GATES
BURY NEW ROAD
PRESTWICH
MANCHESTER
M25 0JW
Phone:
07546942549
Email:
info@freeukgenealogy.org.uk
Website:

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