BELL VIEW (BELFORD)

Registered charity 1075896 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BELL VIEW (BELFORD) LIMITED, THE BELL VIEW PROJECT

We are a community-based charity, working from our centre in Belford, working across 300 square miles in rural North Northumberland. We reduce isolation and help people of all ages to stay connected, active & well, through social, creative, therapeutic activities, volunteering, transport & practical support. We provide space and practical help for community & voluntary groups, to meet and grow.

Objects

(A) To prevent or relieve social exclusion and promote social inclusion by:(i) providing facilities for recreation, leisure, social and creative activities;(ii) supporting people who are excluded from society or at risk of exclusion by reason of age, disability, ill health, poverty, isolation, or other disadvantage;(iii) fostering community cohesion and intergenerational connections; and(iv) providing facilities and resources for community groups and voluntary organisations that strengthen community life and reduce isolation.(B) To advance health and wellbeing by:(i) providing therapeutic services and activities that support physical and mental health; and(ii) relieving the needs of older people, disabled people, those in poor health, and their carers.(C) To advance education, particularly relating to health, wellbeing, and the understanding of the needs and aspirations of different age groups and communities.(D) To relieve poverty and financial hardship, particularly in rural North Northumberland.

Area of benefit: NORTH NORTHUMBERLAND

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £77,000 for the year, primarily due to non-cash depreciation charges and the timing of restricted project expenditure. Unrestricted reserves stood at £289,000, which the trustees consider to be in line with their policy of holding three months' running costs. The group's financial position is supported by a trading subsidiary that gifted profits to the charity, and the auditor confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the group's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Bell View (Belford) (matched by registered charity number).

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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~0.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (92% 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr EMMA CHRISTINA MILLER
• Dr Shirley Anne Tinnion
• Eileen Duncan · trustee of 2 other charities
• Guy Renner-Thompson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jane Elizabeth Cowley
• KATHLEEN MARY WILLIAMSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Margaret Todd
• Rev Louise Margaret Taylor-Kenyon · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Northumberland

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 SELBY DISTRICT VISION.

• SELBY DISTRICT VISION income £26k
• BELVEDERE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £32k
• BELLE VUE COMMUNITY, SPORTS & YOUTH CENTRE LIMITED income £730k
• BUCKSVISION income £579k
• BELLE VALE COMMUNITY CENTRE income £136k
• BETTER WAY RECOVERY income £566k

Side by side with its peers

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