CORNERSTONE (NORTH EAST) ADOPTION AND FOSTERING SERVICE

Registered charity 1114213 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Cornerstone UK, Foundations Matter · also registered in Scotland as SC050836 (OSCR)

Providing a high quality adoption and fostering child care service according to Christian principles to alleviate the needs of children and young people who are or may be temporarily or permanently separate from their families.

Objects

TO PROVIDE A HIGH QUALITY ADOPTION AND FOSTERING CHILD CARE SERVICE ACCORDING TO CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES TO ALLEVIATE THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE OR MAY BE TEMPORARILY OR PERMANENTLY SEPARATE FROM THEIR FAMILIES AND TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF AND CARE OF CHILDREN WITHOUT FAMILIES OR PARENTS ABLE TO CARE FOR THEM BY THE PROVISION OF SUBSTITUTE FAMILIES ABLE TO MEET THEIR NEEDS WITH THE AIM OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE AND FUTURE OF SUCH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE REGIONAL AND NATIONAL.

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £59,066 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decline in total reserves from £170,161 to £111,095. The trustees acknowledge that the cash flow situation has been precarious and that the charity's ability to continue as a going concern is heavily dependent on securing uncertain grant funding and generating income from new services.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kinnair Associates Limited. Discloses 5 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
• 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
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Foundations Matter (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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: 1.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Nadine Parkerchair
• Charles Fraser Thomson
• Gillian Horner
• Hamish Alexander Baillie
• Karen Elizabeth Barrick
• MICHAEL GEOFFREY HORNER
• THOMAS NEVIL ANTHONY STAUNTON

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CORNERSTONE WORKS LTD.

• THE CORNERSTONE WORKS LTD income £498k
• CORNERSTONE EVANGELICAL CHURCH income £1.2m
• CORNERSTONE CHURCH, BOURNEMOUTH income £126k
• CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CENTRE income £122k
• THE CORNERSTONE CHURCH GROUP income £226k
• Cornerstone Bath income £151k

Side by side with its peers

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