THE CEDARWOOD TRUST

Registered charity 1100530 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Cedarwood

The charity operates from the Cedarwood Community Hub and across North Tyneside, thus aims to provide facilities and services for the relief of poverty, and the promotion of health and well-being and life-chances, through information, pastoral support, education and training, and leisure-time activities in the interests of social welfare.

Objects

1. TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE NORTH-EAST OF ENGLAND, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THOSE LIVING IN THE MEADOW WELL ESTATE IN NORTH SHIELDS (TOGETHER THE “AREA OF BENEFIT”) BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID INHABITANTS AND VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATIONS, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS.2. THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY BY PROVIDING ADVICE, SUPPORT, FOOD, FINANCIAL AND HOUSING ASSISTANCE AND OTHER RESOURCES TO THOSE IN NEED WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.3. THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH AND WELL-BEING WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT BY PROVIDING INFORMATION, PASTORAL CARE, PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES WHICH PROMOTE HEALTHIER LIFESTYLES AND REDUCE SOCIAL ISOLATION.4. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY AMONG DISADVANTAGED INDIVIDUALS AND WITHIN DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES, BY OFFERING LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES, SKILLS DEVELOPMENT, AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES. 5. THE ADVANCEMENT OF CITIZENSHIP AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT BY PROMOTING COMMUNITY CAPACITY-BUILDING, VOLUNTEERING, AND PARTNERSHIPS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO RESILIENT AND EMPOWERED COMMUNITIES.

Area of benefit: MEADOW WELL, NORTH SHIELDS

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £61,584 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in free reserves of £35,516. The trustees consider this level of free reserves to be below the level required for long-term resilience and plan to revise their formal reserves policy to rebuild unrestricted funds. The charity remains a going concern supported by secured grant funding and active financial management, though it faces ongoing volatility in costs and funding cycles.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2021 (received 07/07/2022, 7 days after the 30/06/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04855747

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.

• MARSHALL, Frances — director, appointed 31/05/2023not on trustee list
• YOUNG, Helen, Rev — director, appointed 31/05/2023on trustee list
• APPLEBY, John Christopher, Dr — director, appointed 01/11/2019on trustee list
• GRAY, Adam — director, appointed 01/09/2019on trustee list
• LENNOX, Paul Solomon, Dr — secretary, appointed 30/10/2025

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £220k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (76% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Derek Coglechair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Adam Gray
• Anya Megan Tait
• Beverley Reid · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Catrin Noone
• Dr John Appleby · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Babak Malekpour
• Rev Helen Young

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

Operates in: North Tyneside

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE NORTH TYNESIDE CARERS CENTRE.

• THE NORTH TYNESIDE CARERS CENTRE income £962k
• THE CHARNWOOD TRUST income £961k
• DALGARNO TRUST income £726k
• NORTH TYNESIDE DISABILITY FORUM LTD income £376k
• THE CHILDHOOD TRUST income £3.3m
• THE CITY HOSPICE TRUST LIMITED income £3.2m

Side by side with its peers

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