PIONEERING CARE PARTNERSHIP

Registered charity 1067888 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

PCP provides a range of projects & services promoting health, wellbeing & learning for all. Operating in the North East of England activities include management of a healthy living centre, delivery of social prescribing, counselling, Health Trainer interventions, Befriending projects & learning disability services. Employability assistance, community learning & classes & courses are also provided.

Objects

2.1. The Charity's objects are restricted specifically, in each case only for the public benefit and mainly but not exclusively in North East England;2.1.1. the relief of need, hardship, poverty or distress including but without limitation the preservation, protection and advancement of good health and improvements of the qualities of life of people in need of assistance or support by reason of caring responsibilities, poverty, disability, age, ill health or substance addiction;2.1.2. the advancement of education of persons in need, hardship, poverty or distress; and2.1.3. developing the capacity and skills of service users and the community in such a way that they are better able to identify, and help meet, their needs and to improve their health and wellbeing to participate more fully in society.

Area of benefit: MAINLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN COUNTY DURHAM AND DARLINGTON

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · 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 provided text is an excerpt from the Independent Auditors' Report for Pioneering Care Partnership for the year ended 31 March 2025. It outlines the audit procedures performed, such as data analytics and sampling of journal entries, and limits the report's use to the charitable company's members. The document does not contain financial data regarding reserves, income, expenditure, or going concern status to assess financial health.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by S&W Partners Audit Limited. Discloses 3 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
• 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03491237

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Pioneering Care Partnership (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Carol Gaskarth — Chief Executive (source)
• Liz Fisher — Deputy Chief Executive (source)
• Sandra Roberts — Head of Quality and Development (source)
• Vicky Browning — Head of People and Business Services (source)
• Philip Wood — Head of Enterprise (Growth Hubs) (source)
• Jo Davies — Head of Financial Resourcing (source)
• Bobby Hewitson — Head of Programmes and Impact (North) (source)
• Gayle Goldsmith — Head of Enterprise (Centre) (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

• LYNCH, Anna Marie — director, appointed 09/12/2024on trustee list
• BURTON, Kevin — director, appointed 14/10/2024on trustee list
• CAMERON, Ian — director, appointed 14/10/2024on trustee list
• SACCO, Mark Johnston, Dr — director, appointed 16/10/2023on trustee list
• HURST, Philip Neil — director, appointed 16/10/2023on trustee list
• SMITH, Dela, Dame — director, appointed 01/04/2023on trustee list
• MOHAN, Marilyn Isobelle — director, appointed 26/07/2018on trustee list
• BREWSTER, Heather — director, appointed 29/09/2014on trustee list
• GASKARTH, Carol — secretary, appointed 02/10/2018

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~12.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (89% 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anna Marie Lynch
• Dame Dela Smith
• Dr Mark Johnston Sacco
• Evelyn Melanie Fordham
• Heather Brewster · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ian Cameron
• Kevin Burton
• MARILYN MOHAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Philip Neil Hurst

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

Operates in: Darlington · Durham · Middlesbrough · Redcar And Cleveland · Stockton-on-tees · Sunderland

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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