COPS (COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROJECT SOLUTIONS)
Charity number: 1178997
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
COPS is a community action charity. FIREFIGHTERS supports people in crisis in the community via telephone support, feeds the homeless, befriends isolated and elderly people and supports disenfranchised people in need. THE NAKED TRUTH helps churches support trauma and abuse victims. BLACK AND BLUE works to build relations between the local authority police and black community and promote equality.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 01 March 2024
Total income: £11,146
Total expenditure: £7,571
People
3 Trustee(s)
76 Volunteer(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No information availableFundraising
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
- Disability
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Religious Activities
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency
- Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
- 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
- The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
- Provides Other Finance
- Provides Services
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
- Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
- Other Charitable Activities
Where the charity operates:
- Throughout England
Governance
Registration history:
- 29 June 2018: CIO registration
Organisation type:
CIO
Other names:
- BLACK AND BLUE PROJECT (Working name)
- FIREFIGHTERS (Working name)
- Firefighters Social outreach Charity (Working name)
- THE NAKED TRUTH (Working name)
- B LACK AND BLUE PROJECT (Previous name)
- BAME and BLUE Project (Previous name)
- FIREFIGHTERS CHRISTIAN MINISTRY (Previous name)
Gift aid:
Not 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
- 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
- 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
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
3 Trustee(s)
| Name | Role | Date of appointment | Other trusteeships | Reporting status of other trusteeships | ||||
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| S VOUSDEN | Chair | 12 January 2020 |
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| Susan Straugh | Trustee | 27 March 2025 |
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| R BOJANG | Trustee | 12 January 2020 |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 01/03/2020 | 01/03/2021 | 01/03/2022 | 01/03/2023 | 01/03/2024 | ||
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Total gross income | £1.71k | £10.75k | £6.25k | £12.20k | £11.15k | |
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Total expenditure | £1.54k | £10.39k | £5.97k | £12.15k | £7.57k | |
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Income from government contracts | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income from government grants | N/A | £10.00k | 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 |
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| Annual return | 01 March 2024 | 31 December 2024 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 01 March 2024 | 31 December 2024 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 01 March 2023 | 13 December 2023 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 01 March 2023 | 13 December 2023 | On Time | |
| Annual return | 01 March 2022 | 31 December 2022 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 01 March 2022 | 31 December 2022 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 01 March 2021 | 27 December 2021 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 01 March 2021 | 01 January 2022 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 01 March 2020 | 13 June 2020 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 01 March 2020 | 13 June 2020 | On Time | Download Open in new window |