FIRST STOP DARLINGTON

Registered charity 1073822 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

First Stop Darlington provides a Wellbeing and Work Hub in the town centre of Darlington and houses a range of practical, free facilities and activities designed to help people navigate from life events and difficulties through to having control of their destination and plan how to get there, no matter what the future vision is.

Objects

3.The Charity?s objects (?the Objects?) are the relief of those persons in the Borough of Darlington and its surrounding areas, who are in conditions of need, hardship or distress, in particular by the provision of a centre from which advice, support, training and other activities are delivered to help them towards wellbeing and work.

Area of benefit: BOROUGH OF DARLINGTON

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £278,567, which includes a revalued freehold property. The trustees report a healthy financial position but note that charitable funding for poverty remains scarce and demands on clients are significant, creating a challenging operating environment. The charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• 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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• The Worshipful company of Grocers — “Our Funders The Worshipful company of Grocers” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £155k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• Bernadette Mary Chapman
• Christine Tarran
• David Hemingway
• Debra Irving · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOHN WILLIAM KILGOUR

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

Operates in: Darlington

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FIRST STOP CENTRE (MID-ESSEX BRANCH).

• FIRST STOP CENTRE (MID-ESSEX BRANCH) income £83k
• THE DARLINGTON TOWN MISSION income £31k
• FRANCES DARLINGTON CHARITY income £27k
• DARLINGTON ASSISTANCE FOR REFUGEES income £144k
• Darlington Mind income £851k
• HEADWAY DARLINGTON AND DISTRICT income £19k

Side by side with its peers

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