HARTLEPOOL PEOPLE LIMITED

Registered charity 1062163 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HARTLEPOOL PEOPLE

Hartlepool People is a voluntary organisation running a large community resource centre dedicated to promoting and addressing the needs of the people of Hartlepool.The main aim of Hartlepool People is to develop personal skills, self-confidence and quality of life.

Objects

A) TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE FURTHERANCE OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS.B) THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATIONS.C) TO RELIEVE POVERTY AMONGST UNEMPLOYED PERSONS THREATENED WITH UNEMPLOYMENT BY ASSISTING THEM TO FIND EMPLOYMENT AND BY TRAINING AND RETRAINING THEM TO FIND EMPLOYMENT AS A MEANS OF RELIEVING THIS POVERTY.

Area of benefit: HARTLEPOOL

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £22,202 for the year ended 31 March 2025. Per the trustees' report, free reserves amounted to £76,380, which is below the stated policy target of approximately six months of unrestricted expenditure. The trustees consider it prudent to designate £30,000 of free reserves for lift repairs or replacement.

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
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02027732 · Financial health read from its filings

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• KIRKHAM, Peter Robert — director, appointed 30/03/2026not on trustee list
• DINNING, John Alfred — director, appointed 11/08/2004on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Rebecca — secretary, appointed 31/03/2023

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher McLoughlin
• GORDAN LATHAN
• JOHN DINNING
• Joan Wilson

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

Operates in: Hartlepool

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 Hartlepool Community Trust.

• Hartlepool Community Trust income £184k
• HARTLEPOOL CARERS income £538k
• HARTLEPOOL NDC TRUST income £109k
• HARTLEPOOL CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £605k
• HALE COMMUNITY CENTRE LTD income £303k
• COMMUNITY LITTLE HULTON income £250k

Side by side with its peers

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