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Charity Details:

Ben - Motor and Allied Trades Benevolent Fund

SC039842Registered charity from 02 September 2008
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The Name the Charity is Known By BEN
Address Ben – Motor & Allied Trades Benevolent Fund
c/o Blandy & Blandy
One Friar Street
Reading
Berkshire
Postcode RG1 1DA
Website www.ben.org.uk
Regulatory Type Cross-Border
Link to Companies House https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/
Object:
3.1 The Objects of the Charity are the prevention and relief of distress, sickness and poor health (whether mental or physical) and financial hardship by the provision of health and wellbeing services including advice, financial support and grants, health and wellness training, and information and literature 3.1.1 primarily to those persons who are resident in the Area of Benefit (defined below); and 3.1.2 who are working or who have worked in a qualifying trade of industry (defined below); or 3.1.3 who are close dependants (defined below) of any person who satisfies the criteria in articles 3.1.2 and 3.1.3. and persons who fall within the criteria in articles 3.1.1, 3.1.2 and 3.1.3 are the Primary beneficiaries 3.1.4 and otherwise for the benefit of any persons who are not Primary Beneficiaries, but who are resident in the Area of Benefit For the purposes of these objects: 3.2 the Area of Benefit shall mean England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland 3.3 a qualifying trade or industry shall mean motor engineering and allied trades and industries, including any trade business occupation profession or association which provides financial, insurance or other services or which originates or publishes material relating to those trades or industries or whose activities or any of them are ancillary to or connected with those trades or industries. The term ‘motor, engineering and allied trades and industries’ shall include any individual or body engaged in the manufacture, sale, repair or service of commercial vehicles, garage and service equipment, motor cars and coaches, motor bicycles, lubricants or propulsion fuel for any of them and the component parts of any of them or, in the case of an individual or body only partly so engaged, only those engaged solely in those activities; and 3.4 a close dependant shall mean an individual who relies on a person who satisfies the criteria in articles 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 for financial or other support and includes the spouse or partner, parent, child, sibling, grandparent or grandchild (by blood or marriage) of that person.
Details of the charity's operations
Charity Status: Active
Last Updated: 31 Mar 2025
Constitutional Form: Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)
Constitutional Form Date: 02 Sept 2008
Geographical Spread: UK and overseas
Main Operating Location: Outwith Scotland
Purposes: "the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage"
Beneficiaries: "Other defined groups"
Types of activity undertaken: "It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals","It carries out activities or services itself"
Annual Information Submission History
Year End Income Expenditure Annual Return Received Accounts Received Latest Accounts
31 Mar 2021 £17,079,000 £17,396,000 27 Aug 2021 Yes
31 Mar 2022 £16,587,000 £17,670,000 23 Aug 2022 Yes
31 Mar 2023 £18,932,000 £20,522,000 20 Dec 2023 Yes
31 Mar 2024 £20,533,000 £22,420,000 03 Dec 2024 Yes Published accounts can be found on the Charity Commission website
31 Mar 2025 No Annual Information due by 31 Dec 2025
*Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, OSCR allowed an additional 9 months grace period for charities that were overdue/late when their annual information due by date fell between 01 March 2020 and 31 March 2021.

If an annual return has been received on time (within nine months of the Year End Date), the 'Annual Return Received' box is green   . If an annual return is late, the box is red   .
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