SHINEY ADVICE AND RESOURCE PROJECT

Registered charity 1065786 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SHARP

Provision of welfare rights, benefit entitlement and debt advice services. Signposting to services providing specialist advice on housing, employment or legal issues.Education and training courses, collection point for credit union.Community development for the local community and support for local community groups.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY LIVING IN HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING

Area of benefit: HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £71,992 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted funds of £423,527. However, the trustees note that funding for core costs remains a constant challenge, particularly due to rising energy costs, and they expect limited funding availability in the coming year.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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)

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 04769232

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.

• LAWSON, Anne — director, appointed 22/11/2023on trustee list
• LEVEY, Kathleen Margaret — director, appointed 01/04/2019not on trustee list
• WATSON, Lisa Jayne — director, appointed 21/09/2012on trustee list
• PATTERSON, Tia — director, appointed 31/10/2009on trustee list
• PARKIN, Christine — director, appointed 19/05/2003not on trustee list
• LEEKS OBE, Clinton Eliot — secretary, appointed 06/10/2014

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• TIA PATTERSONchair
• Anne Lawson · trustee of 1 other charity
• CHRIS PARKIN
• Clinton Leeks
• Kath Levey
• LISA JAYNE WATSON

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

Operates in: Sunderland

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 STOCKTON AND DISTRICT ADVICE AND INFORMATION SERVICE.

• STOCKTON AND DISTRICT ADVICE AND INFORMATION SERVICE income £1.6m
• STEPNEY COMMUNITY TRUST income £116k
• WALNEY COMMUNITY TRUST income £180k
• SHIRE TRAINING WORKSHOPS LIMITED income £510k
• GLOBAL SOURCENET income £49k
• SHIVIA income £594k

Side by side with its peers

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