New charity investigation: Sheffield Reclamation Limited
The Charity Commission has opened a statutory inquiry into Sheffield Reclamation Limited, registered charity number 1025612.
The Charity Commission, the independent regulator of charities in England and Wales, has opened a new statutory inquiry into the charity Sheffield Reclamation Limited (charity registration number 1025612) for repeatedly defaulting on the submission of annual accounting information. The inquiry opened on 19 February 2015.
The charity, which is based in Sheffield and has objects to give relief to people with learning difficulties, was previously part of the commission’s class inquiry into charities that have defaulted on two or more occasions on their legal obligations to submit annual accounting information to the regulator. On 16 May 2014, the charity came out of that inquiry because it had submitted the outstanding accounts from the financial year ending 31 March 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. The inquiry report was published by the regulator on 27 June 2014.
Despite the regulator’s recent enforcement action to ensure the trustees were compliant, the charity failed to submit its annual accounts and returns for the latest financial year ending 31 March 2014 which were due to be filed by 31 January 2015. The commission has exercised its statutory power to direct the trustees to prepare and submit the missing information by 22 April 2015, and an explanation for the repeated default, so this can be considered before further enforcement action by the regulator is considered - see endnote 1.
The purpose of an inquiry is to examine issues in detail and investigate and establish the facts so that the regulator can ascertain whether there has been misconduct and mismanagement; establish the extent of the risk to the charity’s property, beneficiaries or work; decide what action needs to be taken to resolve the serious concerns, if necessary using its investigative, protective and remedial powers to do so.
It is the commission’s policy, after it has concluded an inquiry, to publish a report detailing what issues the inquiry looked at, what actions were undertaken as part of the inquiry and what the outcomes were.
Reports of previous inquiries by the commission are available on GOV.UK.
The charity’s details can be viewed on the commission’s online charity search tool.
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Notes to editors
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The Charity Commission is the independent regulator of charities in England and Wales.
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Our mission is to be the independent registrar and regulator of charities in England and Wales, acting in the public’s interest, to ensure that: * charities know what they have to do * the public know what charities do * charities are held to account
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Section 46 of the Charities Act 2011 gives the commission the power to institute inquiries. The opening of an inquiry gives the commission access to a range of protective and remedial powers.
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The commission’s decision to announce the opening of a statutory inquiry is based on whether it is in the public interest to do so and with consideration of our objective to increase public trust and confidence in charities.
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Endnotes
- The Charity Commission exercised its powers under section 84 of the Act to direct the trustees to prepare and complete the relevant missing annual accounts, reports and returns for the charity and provide copies of these to the commission.
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