BISHOP AUCKLAND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP

Registered charity 1097681 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BACP

To maintain and manage the Four Clocks Centre, and to promote for the benefit of the inhabitants of Bishop Auckland and the neighbourhood, through the provision of the Community Resource Centre, and the provisions of a Venture Out Project, Family Contact Centre Project, Four Clocks Club Project, and a Cultivate 4 Life Project

Objects

TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE THE FOUR CLOCKS CENTRE (HEREINAFTER CALLED 'THE CENTRE') AND TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF BISHOP AUCKLAND AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD (HEREINAFTER CALLED 'THE AREA OF BENEFIT') WITHOUT THE DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE, OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID INHABITANTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS. TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED

Area of benefit: BISHOP AUCKLAND AND NEIGHBOURHOOD

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · 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 the charity incurred a net expenditure of £13,059 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £377,055 to £363,996. Per the trustees' report, the charity is entitled to exemption from audit under small companies provisions, and the independent examiner confirmed no matters gave cause for concern regarding the accounts.

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 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04619793

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Bishop Auckland Community Partnership Limited (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• ATKINSON, Liam James — director, appointed 01/12/2023on trustee list
• WOMBWELL, Jean — director, appointed 05/10/2016on trustee list
• ROBSON, Bill — director, appointed 07/09/2016on trustee list
• BRYSON, Nigel — director, appointed 07/07/2016on trustee list
• GOLIGHTLY, Ann — director, appointed 30/09/2009on trustee list
• EASTON, Robert — director, appointed 06/05/2004not on trustee list
• LAVERICK, John Clifford — director, appointed 17/12/2002not on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Nigel Brysonchair
• ANN GOLIGHTLY
• Bill Robson
• Jean Wombwell
• Liam Atkinson
• MR CLIFF LAVERICK
• ROBIN EASTON
• Samuel Rushworth

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

Operates in: Durham

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BASINGSTOKE COMMUNITY CHURCHES.

• BASINGSTOKE COMMUNITY CHURCHES income £1.0m
• LOVE STOKE CHURCH income £97k
• UNITY CHURCH, ORPINGTON income £107k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF BISHOP AUCKLAND income £114k
• ABBOTSWOOD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £106k
• BIRCHFIELD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £33k

Side by side with its peers

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