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DURHAM CHRISTIAN PARTNERSHIP

Registered charity 1077549 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DCP

Objective: The enhancement of care to persons who are residing in or visiting the County of Durham or in such other geographical areas as the directors may decide. Activities include County Durham foodbank, Fuel Bank, Community Money Advice, Sunderland foodbank, listening courses, Grandparents support, mentoring and employability support.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£2.0m
Latest spending
£1.4m
Registered
1999
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £90,413 were held at year-end, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of maintaining four months of unrestricted expenditure. Despite a net outflow in unrestricted funding, total funds increased to £2,368,736, supported by a significant surplus in restricted funds.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: four months of unrestricted expenditure (held: £90k)
“The trustees have adopted a reserves policy to maintain a level of reserves, which will ensure a continuation of operations for at least four months without income.” — page 6
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Payments to trustees: One trustee received £8,462 for debt advice services; the wife of a trustee received £21,288 for shop work.
“One of the trustees received remuneration for working 12 hours per week delivering debt advice. The amount paid for this during the year including employers pension contributions totalled £8,462. The wife of a trustee received remuneration for working in the shop. The amount paid for this, including employers’ national insurance totalled £21,288.” — page 19
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Trustee remuneration for debt advice services.
“One of the trustees received remuneration for working 12 hours per week delivering debt advice. The amount paid for this during the year including employers pension contributions totalled £8,462.” — page 19
“The wife of a trustee received remuneration for working in the shop. The amount paid for this, including employers’ national insurance totalled £21,288.” — page 19
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Remuneration paid to trustee's wife for shop work.
“One of the trustees received remuneration for working 12 hours per week delivering debt advice. The amount paid for this during the year including employers pension contributions totalled £8,462.” — page 19
“The wife of a trustee received remuneration for working in the shop. The amount paid for this, including employers’ national insurance totalled £21,288.” — page 19
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Governance: Qualified opinion due to inability to verify opening inventory quantities from prior year.
“The previous years audit report was qualified on the basis that as we were not appointed as auditor to the charity until after 31 December 2023 and thus did not observe the counting of physical inventories at the year end 31 December 2023. We were unable to satisfy ourselves by alternative means concerning the inventory quantities held at 31 December 2023, which are included on the balance sheet at £60,700, by using other audit procedures.” — page 8
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Counting North Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Total income
£2.0m
Total spending
£1.4m
Reserves (reported)
£190k
Employees
33

Reported reserves equal ~1.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (85% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Durham · Sunderland

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2024£2.0m£1.4m
31/12/2023£1.8m£1.2m
31/12/2022£825k£739k
31/12/2021£898k£549k
31/12/2020£884k£461k

Common questions

Is DURHAM CHRISTIAN PARTNERSHIP financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £90,413 were held at year-end, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of maintaining four months of unrestricted expenditure. Despite a net outflow in unrestricted funding, total funds increased to £2,368,736, supported by a significant surplus in restricted funds. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by Counting North Limited.

Who funds DURHAM CHRISTIAN PARTNERSHIP?

Funders whose own accounts filings name DURHAM CHRISTIAN PARTNERSHIP as a grant recipient include Point North Community Foundation, Fuel Bank Foundation, UTILITA GIVING, SIR JOHN PRIESTMAN CHARITY TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
Point North Community FoundationFY2024£636k
Point North Community FoundationFY2025£255k
Fuel Bank FoundationFY2023£152kFuel Bank Vouchers
UTILITA GIVINGFY2024£34k
UTILITA GIVINGFY2025£6kFood poverty support
SIR JOHN PRIESTMAN CHARITY TRUSTFY2024£4kSection 2(f)

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund17/04/2024£484kCommunity Money Advice County Durham
Sport England21/07/2022£9kJubilee fund - Adventure for Health
Community Foundation North East21/10/2021£3kA grant to Durham Christian Partnership
The National Lottery Community Fund23/04/2021£10kPadB (Durham Christian Partnership)
Community Foundation North East15/10/2018£3kCounty Durham Foodstore Rent
The National Lottery Community Fund21/11/2014£397kCrisis to Confidence

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
THE BALLINGER CHARITABLE TRUST2£60k
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE HOSPITALS NHS CHARITY1£1.4m
LEMPRIERE PRINGLE 20151£1.0m
THE FOYLE FOUNDATION1£200k
CHARITY OF SIR RICHARD WHITTINGTON1£92k
THE BERNICIA FOUNDATION1£10k
CEO SLEEPOUT1£6k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DURHAM COMMUNITY ACTION LIMITED.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
DURHAM CHRISTIAN PARTNERSHIP£2.0m—0unclear—no doubt
DURHAM COMMUNITY ACTION LIMITED FY2025£1.0m—0unclear—no doubt
AGE CONCERN DURHAM COUNTY FY2025£1.5m——unclear—no doubt
DURHAM COUNTY CARERS SUPPORT FY2025£1.8m—0above—no doubt
COMMUNITIES TOGETHER DURHAM FY2025£362k£53,4970unclear—no doubt
THE DURHAM DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE FY2025£12.5m£90,001 - £100,000—within—no doubt

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