GROUNDWORK NORTH EAST

Registered charity 1017706 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GROUNDWORK WEST DURHAM, GROUNDWORK WEST DURHAM & DARLINGTON, WEST DURHAM GROUNDWORK TRUST

To promote for the public benefit, urban or rural regeneration in areas of social and economic deprivation within the Area.To advance public education in environmental mattersTo promote the conservation, protections and improvement of physical and natural environment within the Area

Objects

(1) TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT IN THE NORTH EAST AND CUMBRIA REGIONS OF ENGLAND (THE 'AREA');(2) TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THOSE LIVING IN OR WORKING IN OR RESORTING TO THE AREA OF BENEFIT; (3) TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS AND OTHER WAYS OF BETTER CONSERVING, PROTECTING AND IMPROVING THE SAME WHERESOEVER; (4 TO PROMOTE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, URBAN OR RURAL REGENERATION IN AREAS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3)

Area of benefit: NORTH EAST AND CUMBRIA AREAS OF ENGLAND

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

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a consolidated surplus of £288,974 and increased its total funds to £5,038,549. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves are maintained at a level above the stated policy target to manage financial risks and working capital needs. The trustees and auditors confirm the charity is a going concern with adequate resources for the next 12 to 18 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 4 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Groundwork North East & Cumbria receives £3,000 donation from local housebuilder northumberlandgazette.co.uk · 24/06/2024
• 10 questions for Steve Roberts of Groundwork North East and Cumbria business-live.co.uk · 16/03/2023

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Groundwork NE & Cumbria (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

13 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (7 freehold); recorded price paid £240k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (86% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 9.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/01/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/10/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/01/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amber Jade Jasmine Anderson · trustee of 1 other charity
• DIANA CATHERINE PEARCE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Helen Simmons
• Joel Peter Kirkham Hayes Atherton
• John Edward Pritchard
• Marion Fiona Schooler · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael William Orde · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rachael Crooks
• Steven Francis Cole
• Zain Richardson · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GROUNDWORK NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.

• GROUNDWORK NORTHAMPTONSHIRE income £1.4m
• Near East Foundation UK income £5.3m
• THE GROUNDWORK SOUTH TRUST LIMITED income £9.4m
• GROUNDWORK NORTH WALES income £2.9m
• GROUNDWORK LONDON income £27.9m
• NORTH EAST AREA MINERS' SOCIAL WELFARE TRUST FUND income £64k

Side by side with its peers

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