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Avon And Somerset Constabulary Benevolent Fund

Country
England & Wales
Charity number
1085497
Status
Registered
Registered
March 12, 2001
Legal form
Charitable company
Company number
03837167

Address

Address
Avon & Somerset Police Authority
Valley Road
Portishead
Bristol
BS20 8JJ

Activities

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.

Objects: 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;]

Classification

How
Makes Grants To Individuals, Provides Other Finance
What
General Charitable Purposes
Who
Other Defined Groups

Geography

Area of benefit
Not Defined. In Practice South Gloucestershire, Banes, Bristol, North Somerset & Somerset.
Local Authority
Bath And North East Somerset, Bristol City, North Somerset, Somerset, South Gloucestershire

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure
Dec. 30, 2024 £26,482 £112,483
Dec. 30, 2023 £45,907 £55,539
Dec. 30, 2022 £37,373 £59,131
Dec. 31, 2021 £33,830 £24,260
Dec. 31, 2020 £39,156 £34,642

Trustees

Name Appointed
Sarah Jane Crew (Chair) July 26, 2021
Anthony Blatchford Nov. 4, 2024
Caroline McKinnell Sept. 14, 2023
Karen Michelle CORRIGAN July 18, 2018
Marc Flavell Nov. 4, 2024
Mark Peter Edgington Dec. 9, 2021
Mary Lucy Wyatt Oct. 6, 2025
Richard WAND April 7, 2022
Simon Cleiton JEWELL Oct. 20, 2020
Simon Lancey April 7, 2022
Thomas Gent Dec. 9, 2024