Finance Score: -2

Governance Score: 8

Support Score: 0

Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

12+ Trustees: -1
Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

No supporters identified

Overall GiG Score: 6

AVON AND SOMERSET CONSTABULARY BENEVOLENT FUND

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

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are 13 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff
30/12/22		£37	£59	£-22	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/21	*	£34	£24	£10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/20		£39	£35	£5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/19		£68	£47	£21	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/18		£43	£68	£-25	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/17		£41	£51	£-9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/16		£48	£42	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/15		£60	£35	£25	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/14		£66	£43	£23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/13		£55	£15	£39	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/12		£71	£91	£-20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/11		£73	£69	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/10		£67	£37	£30	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/09		£79	£56	£24	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/08		£72	£68	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/07		£73	£40	£33	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/06		£24	£72	£-47	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/05		£31	£67	£-36	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/04	*	£34	£53	£-19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 23 years

Benevolentfund@avonandsomerset.police.uk

07889659855

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

General Charitable Purposes

GiG Classification

Financial or material assistance

How it operates

Makes Grants to Individuals
Provides other finance

Where it operates

Bath And North East Somerset, Bristol City, North Somerset, Somerset, South Gloucestershire,

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups

Who supports them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (13)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 11/13 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 34-66

ABIGAIL SAMANTHA JENNISON Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Admin & Coordinator Team Leader

ALEX DUNCAN Appointed: 2023

ANTONY JEFF HENLEY Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Police Officer

AQIL FAROOQ Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Police Officer

CAROLINE MCKINNELL Appointed: 2023

KAREN MICHELLE CORRIGAN Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Police Officer

MARK PETER EDGINGTON Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Police Officer

NIGEL PAUL LAST Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Hr Manager

RICHARD WAND Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired

SARAH JANE CREW (Chair) Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Police Officer

SIMON CLEITON JEWELL Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Police Officer

SIMON LANCEY Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Police Officer

TINA JUSTINE ROBINSON Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Police Officer

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 12/03/2001, number: 1085497
Registered at Companies House on 07/09/1999, number: 03837167

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Conflicting interests
Investment
Risk management

Filing Record

19 returns made; AR21: 4 days late, AR04: 15 days late,

Main office

AVON & SOMERSET CONSTABULARY
PO BOX 37
PORTISHEAD
BRISTOL
BS20 8QJ

Objectives

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;]

Defined Area of Benefit:

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

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