RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT

Registered charity 1028632 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q61930676

Riverside Community Health Project uses community development approaches to enable individuals and groups to recognise and tackle the underlying causes of ill health. By working alongside the community, the organisation attempts to bring about improvements of lasting benefit to adults and children in the neighbourhoods of Benwell, Elswick, West City, Sctoswood, Fenham and beyond.

Objects

TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH OF PERSONS IN NEWCASTLE PARTICULARLY BY ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE PROMOTION OF HEALTH AWARENESS HEALTH ISSUES AND HEALTH PROBLEMS

Area of benefit: NEWCASTLE

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Newcastle upon Tyne, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of a deficit of £46,561 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total net assets of £985,783. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds £57,581 in general unrestricted funds, which is below the designated reserves target of £262,008 representing six months of running costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Riverside Community Health Project (matched by registered charity number).

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~6.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (84% 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: 14.2% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher david Smith
• Craig Colin Lilford
• Hayder Alam Umor Qureshi
• Helen Wells
• Kuveri Katjangua
• Lynda Cox · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mx Aoibhe Josephine White
• Rebecca Hannah Wansell
• Stephen Allen
• Suzanne Devlin
• Vicki Louise Turnbull

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

Operates in: Newcastle Upon Tyne City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SOUTH RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTRE LTD.

• SOUTH RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTRE LTD income £407k
• RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £268k
• RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY RESOURCE TRUST income £156k
• RIVERSIDE ADVICE LTD income £539k
• RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION income £2.5m
• Healthwatch Richmond income £205k

Side by side with its peers

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