THE CORNFORTH PARTNERSHIP

Registered charity 1075510 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Cornforth Partnership aims to tackle and alleviate the issues local people and communities face within County Durham in relation to Health, Social, Economic and Educational deprivation. We provide services around 5 broad themes: Children, Young People and Families Domestic Abuse Older Person and Adult Well being Employment, training and Welfare

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE PARISH OF CORNFORTH AND SURROUNDING AREAS IN COUNTY DURHAM, IN PARTICULAR TO RELIEVE POVERTY, ADVANCE EDUCATION, PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION AND TO PROTECT AND IMPROVE THE LOCAL ENVIRONMENT WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SAID PERSONS.

Area of benefit: PARISH OF CORNFORTH AND SURROUNDING AREAS IN COUNTY DURHAM

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 · Accommodation/housing · 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 accounts state that unrestricted free reserves were £127,736 at 31 March 2025, which exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of approximately £30,000 (three months of core cost expenditure). The charity reported a net income surplus of £142,420 for the year, with total income of £939,220 against total expenditure of £796,800.

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.

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)

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 14/02/2024, 14 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% 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: 1.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALAN HODGSONchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anne Dunn
• Christine Heron
• HELEN PATRICIA DREW · trustee of 1 other charity
• SHIRLI TRAYNOR · trustee of 1 other charity
• SUSAN JANE NEVILLE

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

Operates in: Durham

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DURHAM CHRISTIAN PARTNERSHIP.

• DURHAM CHRISTIAN PARTNERSHIP income £1.6m
• DURHAM COUNTY CARERS SUPPORT income £1.9m
• EAST DURHAM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST LTD income £1.7m
• ACORN COMMUNITY CARE income £2.8m
• DONCASTER PARTNERSHIP FOR CARERS LTD income £112k
• DORSET COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £47k

Side by side with its peers

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