WELLSPRING FAMILY CENTRE

Registered charity 1105643 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Wellspring Family Centre facilitates community projects that address key social needs in Dereham and the surrounding areas.

Objects

A. TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED OR HARDSHIP OR WHO ARE AGED OR SICK AND TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS CAUSED THEREBY INCLUDING(THOUGH NOT BY WAY OF LIMITATION) THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SUCH MATERIAL ASSISTANCE, ADVICE AND ADVOCACY, AND TRAINING FOR THOSE PERSONS IN NEED OF SUCH ASSISTANCE, IN DEREHAM, NORFOLK AND THE SURROUNDING AREA AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE DIRECTORS OF THE CHARITY (HEREIN CALLED "THE TRUSTEES") MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT;B. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY CONSIDER APPROPRIATE INCLUDING (THOUGH NOT BY WAY OF LIMITATION) BY EDUCATING AND TRAINING THE PUBLIC IN BASIC SKILLS, MARRIAGE AND PARENTING SKILLS, PERSONAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, AND BY THE PROVISION OF PLAYGROUP AND NURSERY FACILITIES, AND PERSONAL AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE SAID LOCATION AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT;C. TO PROMOTE CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS:I) THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF HEALTH;II) THE PROVISION OF TRAINING WITH THE OBJECT OF RELIEVING UNEMPLOYMENT.IN THE SAID LOCATION AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Breckland, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £19,066 for the year ended 30 June 2025, with total income rising to £174,777 and expenditure decreasing to £155,711. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves increased to £117,050, while the charity maintains a reserves policy based on its size and financial commitments without a specific numerical target. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

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Policies the charity declares

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• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Peter Collinsonchair
• Daniel Andrew Johnson
• Harry John Grigg · trustee of 2 other charities
• Howard Bailey · trustee of 1 other charity
• Melanie McEvansoneya
• Richard Kingsnorth · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Norfolk

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE WELLSPRING FAMILY CHURCH DEREHAM.

• THE WELLSPRING FAMILY CHURCH DEREHAM income £283k
• Wellsprings Community Church income £181k
• Wellspring Church Leicester income £353k
• Wellspring Settlement income £2.5m
• WELLSPRING THERAPY & TRAINING income £372k
• THE FAMILY CENTRE (DEAF CHILDREN) income £140k

Side by side with its peers

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