Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: -1

Support Score: 3

Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
No PartB

Mainly male board: -1

Gov Income
Grant maker support: +3

Overall GiG Score: -3

ASHFORD TOGETHER

The charity has overall objectives to:a) Offering greater access to harder to reach people.b) Supply of more spaces (venues) and volunteers.c) Create more meaningful relationship with the community.d) Facilitate bespoke projects and programmes that benefit community members.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received Government grants and contracts

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board is predominantly male

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E	Income	Spending	Surplus/ Deficit	Volun- teers
31/03/23	£49,127	£71,836	£-22,709	5
31/03/22	£43,336	£71,154	£-27,818	10
31/03/21	£70,400	£33,315	£37,085	5
31/03/20	£74,938	£43,593	£31,345	300

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 6 years

https://ashfordtogether.org.uk/

07738305696

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Disability
General Charitable Purposes
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Philanthropic intermediaries and voluntarism promotion

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Makes Grants to Organisations
Provides services

Where it operates

Kent,

Who it helps

Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
5 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 6/7 persons

IAN PATRICK FOWKES Appointed: 2018

MATTHEW JOHN EASON Appointed: 2018

REVD. CANON DR. JEREMY FREDERICK WORTHEN Appointed: 2021, Other trusteeships: THE ASHFORD ALMSHOUSE CHARITY, THOMAS TREHEARNE CHARITY, CANTERBURY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE, THE THOMAS TURNER D D CHARITY (ONE OF THE ASHFORD PAROCHIAL CHARITIES), THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ASHFORD TOWN,

SOPHIE CARNABY Appointed: 2022

RICHARD FINLINSON MBE Appointed: 2018, Other trusteeships: THE COMMUNITY OF THE PRESENTATION TRUST, OUR WORLD EDUCATIONAL TRUST,

RICHARD MARK LLOYD EASON (Chair) Appointed: 2018, Other trusteeship: PNEUMA CHURCH,

REV MARK STEPHEN HIRST Appointed: 2020, Other trusteeships: BAPTIST TWINNING IN ISRAEL, WILLESBOROUGH BAPTIST PRE-SCHOOL,

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 12/10/2018, number: 1180283

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment 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
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

Filing Record

4 returns made; all on time

Main office

The Beacon Centre
28 Bank Street
ASHFORD
Kent
TN23 1BA

Objectives

SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF ASHFORD AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL THINK FIT WITHIN AN ETHOS OF CHRISTIAN CARE IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY:(1) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY(2) THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC(3) THE ADVANCEMENT AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH.

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