WHITEHAVEN COMMUNITY TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 1060245 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SENHOUSE CENTRE, WHITEHAVEN POTTERY, WHITEHAVEN YOUTH TRUST LIMITED

To advance education and relieve need amongst people in Whitehaven and surrounding district. To provide support accommodation to Homeless young people 16-25yrs. To provide a Healthy living centre for the whole community with some free services to those with minor mental health problems.

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND RELIEVE NEED AMONGST PEOPLE IN WHITEHAVEN AND SURROUNDING DISTRICT.

Area of benefit: WHITEHAVEN AND SURROUNDING DISTRICT

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cumberland, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £1,503,871 at year-end, with the trustees considering the overall level of reserves adequate. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £420,524, driven by significant grant income, and maintains adequate resources for the foreseeable future under a going concern basis.

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 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
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Whitehaven Community Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Big Lottery Fund — “2007 Big Lottery Fund funding is awarded to the Trust to help improve the mental health of our community and remove stigma towards it” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold); recorded price paid £394k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• MARTIN PARLETTchair
• DAVID LORD
• JANE NICOLSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kurt Canfield
• Michael Graham
• NORMAN CLARKSON

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

Operates in: Cumbria

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CLARENDON TRUST LIMITED.

• CLARENDON TRUST LIMITED income £2.4m
• THE WEST END COMMUNITY TRUST income £45k
• THE HUMANITARIAN TRUST income £240k
• WHITEGATES CHILDREN'S TRUST income £63k
• WARRINGTON TRAINING TRUST LIMITED income £419k
• HARBOROUGH YOUTH AND COMMUNITY TRUST income £162k

Side by side with its peers

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