LIVERPOOL GATEWAY CENTRE

Registered charity 1091501 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Gateway Centre provides educational facilities, conferencing and access to ICT facilities to local and regional charities.We have office space and hotdesk facilities with admin support which is offered to local charity groups at significant discounts.Gateway also runs a coffee bar on the ground floor which provides hot and cold drinks and snacks for Centre users and members of the public.

Objects

1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION THROUGH THE PROVISION OF LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE DISABLED, THE DISADVANTAGED AND THE POOR, AND TO SUPPORT OTHER ORGANISATIONS THAT AID AND ASSIST SUCH PERSONS.2) TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM DISABILITIES.3) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ALL MATTERS CONCERNING DISABILITIES.

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: Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a trading surplus of £25,460 for the year, with total funds increasing to £449,104 following the sale of a ground floor lease. The trustees report that reserves are sufficient to meet charitable objectives and maintain core services, noting that at least six months' minimum running costs are accessible.

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04324214

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.

• COLLINS, Simon Paul — director, appointed 31/03/2022on trustee list
• SMITH, Michelle Elizabeth Xuan — director, appointed 31/03/2022on trustee list
• BYRNE, Nigel — secretary, appointed 17/03/2003

Official officers record.

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Michelle Elizabeth Xuan Smith
• Nikki Parry
• Simon Paul Collins

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

Operates in: Knowsley · Liverpool City · Sefton · St Helens · Wirral

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GATEWAY (YORK) CIO.

• GATEWAY (YORK) CIO income £419k
• CITY GATEWAY LIMITED income £1.4m
• EXETER GATEWAY CENTRE income £136k
• GATEWAY (EDUCATION & CHILDCARE) TRUST LIMITED income £875k
• GATEWAY FOUNDATION income £450k
• GATEWAY MINISTRIES income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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