LAUREL AVENUE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1007837 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Laurel Avenue Community Association is committed to supporting local residents and the wider community by providing accessible services, advice, and opportunities for personal and social development. Our mission is to foster an inclusive and supportive environment where individuals and families can connect, participate, and thrive.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF SHERBURN ROAD AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

Area of benefit: SHERBURN ROAD AND NEIGHBOURHOOD

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: County Durham, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£231k

Latest spending

£196k

Registered

1992

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided text is a Chair's Report and does not contain financial statements, reserve figures, or expenditure data. Consequently, no assessment of financial health can be derived from this document.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
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Internal risk management policy and procedures
Paying staff
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Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Volunteers: 11
Government income: £41,353 — grants £41,353 (2); 18% of the £230,765 total gross income on the same return
Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Volunteers: 11
Government income: £51,123 — grants £51,123 (2); 39% of the £131,983 total gross income on the same return
Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

Volunteers: 11
Government income: £13,081 — grants £13,081 (3); 8% of the £166,655 total gross income on the same return
Grant-making is its main activity

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

Katie Corriganchair
Charlie John Evans
Gaynor Davison

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Durham

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£231k	£196k
31/12/2024	£132k	£166k
31/12/2023	£167k	£119k
31/12/2022	£88k	£79k
31/12/2021	£46k	£84k

Common questions

Is LAUREL AVENUE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The provided text is a Chair's Report and does not contain financial statements, reserve figures, or expenditure data. Consequently, no assessment of financial health can be derived from this document.

Who funds LAUREL AVENUE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION?

Funders whose own accounts filings name LAUREL AVENUE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION as a grant recipient include Point North Community Foundation.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount
Point North Community Foundation	FY2026	£82k
Point North Community Foundation	FY2023	£49k
Point North Community Foundation	FY2025	£31k

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	30/01/2025	£20k	Laurel United Youth Group
Community Foundation North East	15/05/2017	£1k	Laurel Avenue Lunch Club
Northern Rock Foundation	10/03/2008	£51k	Grant awarded to Laurel Avenue Community Association (Durham)
The National Lottery Community Fund	20/02/2008	£10k	Laurel Avenue Community Centre
Northern Rock Foundation	07/12/2004	£90k	Grant awarded to Laurel Avenue Community Association (Durham)

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PASTON AND GUNTHORPE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION.

PASTON AND GUNTHORPE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £54k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
LAUREL AVENUE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION	£231k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
PASTON AND GUNTHORPE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION FY2026	£54k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.