HARBOUR SUPPORT SERVICES

Registered charity 1086897 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NORTH TEES WOMEN'S AID

Harbour is working towards safer communities through holistic services addressing all aspects of Domestic Abuse and other related support services.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS AFFECTED BY DOMESTIC ABUSE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £645,798 for the year ended 31 March 2025, which was covered by spending brought-forward funds. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves of £378,359 were held at year-end, which is lower than the stated policy target of £420,000. The auditors confirmed that resources are adequate to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Waltons Business Advisers 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• 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)

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 — Harbour Support Services (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Lesley Gibson — Chief Executive (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

26 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (8 freehold); recorded price paid £1.7m. 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 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• CAROLINE SKERRY
• Carol Menabawey · trustee of 1 other charity
• Debra McKittrick
• Francesca Cosstick
• Louise Hurst · trustee of 1 other charity
• VICTORIA DUNCAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• WENDY MORRIS

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

Operates in: Darlington · Durham · Hartlepool · Middlesbrough · North Tyneside · Stockton-on-tees

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE HARBOUR CENTRE (PLYMOUTH).

• THE HARBOUR CENTRE (PLYMOUTH) income £3.1m
• THE HARBOUR income £320k
• HAVEN DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICE income £695k
• BLACKBURN AND DARWEN DISTRICT WITHOUT ABUSE LIMITED income £1.4m
• CARMARTHEN DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES LTD income £816k
• Society Without Abuse income £668k

Side by side with its peers

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