# AVON AND SOMERSET CONSTABULARY BENEVOLENT FUND

## Details

- **Country:** England & Wales
- **Charity number:** 1085497
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Charitable company
- **Registered:** March 12, 2001
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=1085497


## Contact

- **Address:** Avon & Somerset Police Authority, Valley Road, Portishead, BRISTOL
- **Postcode:** BS20 8JJ
- **Phone:** 07889659855
- **Email:** Benevolentfund@avonandsomerset.police.uk



## Activities

**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;]

**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.

**Area of benefit:** NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE, BANES, BRISTOL, NORTH SOMERSET & SOMERSET.




## Classification

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



## Areas of operation

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



## Finances

| Period end | Income | Expenditure | Assets | Employees | Accounts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec. 30, 2024 | £26482 | £112483 |  -  |  -  | [PDF](/ew/1085497/files/2024-12-30-accounts.pdf) (1.8 MB) |
| Dec. 30, 2023 | £45907 | £55539 |  -  |  -  | [PDF](/ew/1085497/files/2023-12-30-accounts.pdf) (173.1 KB) |
| Dec. 30, 2022 | £37373 | £59131 |  -  |  -  | [PDF](/ew/1085497/files/2022-12-30-accounts.pdf) (170.2 KB) |
| Dec. 31, 2021 | £33830 | £24260 |  -  |  -  |  |
| Dec. 31, 2020 | £39156 | £34642 |  -  |  -  | [PDF](/ew/1085497/files/2020-12-31-accounts.pdf) (503.1 KB) |




## Trustees

| Name | Role | 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 |