KEY COMMUNITY

Registered charity 1108921 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SOUTH TYNESIDE CHURCHES' KEY PROJECT

The KEY Project provide a range of support services to disadvantaged young people in South Tyneside. We do this by offering: Floating Support, giving practical support to vulnerable young people in their properties; Prevention of Homelessness, mediating between young people and their parents/guardians. We work closely with the local authority, Housing Associations, church and community groups.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT,1. THE PROVISION OF RELIEF FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES WHO ARE, HAVE BEEN, OR ARE AT RISK OF BEING HOMELESS INCLUDING (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE PROVISION OF OTHER FORMS OF RELIEF) THE PROVISION OF SUPPORTED ACCOMODATION, FAMILY RELATIONSHIP BREAKDOWN INTERVENTION AND MEDIATION, ADVICE AND COUNSELLING.2. THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONGST PEOPLE IN SOUTH TYNESIDE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME-TO-TIME THINK FIT, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:A) PROVIDING EMERGENCY FOOD, ESSENTIAL TOILETRIES, AND HOUSEHOLD ITEMS TO INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES IN NEED AND/OR FOR DISTRIBUTION BY CHARITIES OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTYB) SUCH OTHER MEANS, INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT OR SIGNPOSTING TO RELEVANT INFORMATION AND OTHER ADVISORY SERVICES.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE TYNE AND WEAR

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 · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net incoming resource surplus of £99,991 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted funds of £1,762,343. The trustees have designated reserves equivalent to six months of expenditure (£946,881) plus additional provisions for redundancy and major repairs, totaling £1,690,598 in designated funds. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate 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 Torgersens. 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
• 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
• 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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• What are people telling us about three key community services? healthwatch.co.uk · 12/08/2025
• 'A new chapter' for village in Birmingham as key community building taken over birminghammail.co.uk · 14/08/2024
• North East business life: key community, charity and award events of the week - business-live.co.uk business-live.co.uk · 02/05/2024

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05031398

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.

• MILTON, Tracy — director, appointed 29/06/2025on trustee list
• CUNNINGHAM, Gill — director, appointed 28/01/2025on trustee list
• TRAYNOR, David — director, appointed 08/06/2023on trustee list
• OGDEN, Iain — director, appointed 08/06/2023on trustee list
• HAYTON, Penelope Jane Clark — director, appointed 30/10/2015on trustee list
• HAMILTON, Steven — director, appointed 03/11/2011on trustee list
• ALLEN, Ross — secretary, appointed 15/12/2022

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~12.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/12/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Traynor
• Gill Cunningham
• Iain Ogden
• Penelope Hayton
• STEVEN HAMILTON
• Tracy Milton

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

Operates in: South Tyneside

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 The Key-UK.

• The Key-UK income £310k
• KITCHEN FOR EVERYONE income £31k
• CARLISLE KEY income £374k
• CHURCHES TOGETHER IN SOUTH TYNESIDE income £163k
• THE KEYS PROJECT income £119k
• THE KENT ESTUARY YOUTH PROJECT (KEY) income £89k

Side by side with its peers

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