TEES VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1111222 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing a comprehensive and well informed service for donors by managing their funds and donations in accordance with agreed objectives.Bringing people together from the business, public and voluntary sectors to make the best use of available resources.Continuing to build a permanent charitable fund - providing income to give effective long term grant support to local people.

Objects

3.1 THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION ART AND SCIENCE THE PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS.3.2 SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES WHICH ARE IN THE OPINION OF THE TRUSTEES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY AND INDIVIDUALS IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

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.

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Registered contact address: Stockton-on-Tees, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £109,428 are below the trustees' policy target of approximately £142,000, representing six months of core operating costs. The document notes that reserves reduced due to rebrand expenditure but asserts the balance remains appropriate. The auditors confirmed 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

Accounts audited by Anderson Barrowcliff Limited. 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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)

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05478088

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Tees Valley Community Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Hugh McGouran — Chief Executive (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

• SHEPHERD, Wendy, Dr — director, appointed 24/10/2023on trustee list
• SMITH, Robin — director, appointed 24/10/2023on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, Nigel Timothy — director, appointed 16/10/2018on trustee list
• READ, Emma Louise — director, appointed 16/10/2018on trustee list
• O'DRISCOLL, Heather Ann — director, appointed 28/03/2017on trustee list
• SMITH, Keith — director, appointed 04/12/2012on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Jeffrey — director, appointed 25/09/2012not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 10.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/07/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/05/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Wendy Shepherd · trustee of 1 other charity
• Emma Louise Read
• Heather O'Driscoll
• JEFFFREY TAYLOR
• KEITH SMITH
• Nigel Timothy Williams
• Robin Smith

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

Operates in: Hartlepool · Middlesbrough · Redcar And Cleveland · Stockton-on-tees

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• COMMUNITY WELFARE TRUST income £50k
• TEES VALLEY WILDLIFE TRUST LTD income £708k
• TEES VALLEY TOGETHER income £50k
• TEES VALLEY COMMUNITY CARE TRUST income £136k
• TEES VALLEY YOUTH FOR CHRIST income £157k
• KENT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £4.5m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.