EAST DURHAM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST LTD

Registered charity 1117642 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The activities of the charity are the promotion for the public benefit of urban or rural regeneration in areas of social and economic deprivation in County Durham and surrounding area. Activities include delivering services and activities to improve mental and physical health and wellbeing, improving educational attainment, supporting third sector organisations and volunteers,

Objects

3.1 THE PROMOTION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF URBAN OR RURAL REGENERATION IN AREAS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION IN THE EAST DURHAM AND SURROUNDING AREA BY MEANS OF ANY OR ALL OF THE FOLLOWING:A. THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTYB. TRAINING OR RETRAINING PARTICULARLY AMONG UNEMPLOYED PEOPLEC. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION D. THE ADVANCEMENT, PROTECTION AND PROMOTION OF HEALTH E. THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE, OR THOSE WHO BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE THE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIESF. TO FURTHER PEOPLE'S LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN ORDER TO IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE3.2 TO ESTABLISH A BUILDING AS A COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE3.3 BY SUCH OTHER MEANS AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED SUBJECT TO THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE CHARITY COMMISSIONERS FOR ENGLAND AND WALES.

Area of benefit: EAST DURHAM

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted free reserves of £136,084 as of 31 March 2025, which exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of approximately £60,000 (representing three months of running costs). The independent auditor confirmed that the financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified regarding the charity's ability to continue operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Allen Sykes Audit 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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 31/03/2025 (received 16/06/2026, 136 days after the 31/01/2026 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.

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.

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 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Kamalpreet Singh Sidhu
• JANICE MARGARET BRAY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Joanne Angus
• Rona Hardy · trustee of 2 other charities
• SANJEE RATNATUNGA

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

Operates in: Durham

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 EAST DURHAM PARTNERSHIP LIMITED.

• EAST DURHAM PARTNERSHIP LIMITED income £957k
• EAST DURHAM COMMUNITY INITIATIVES LTD income £912k
• COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £253k
• DURHAM CHRISTIAN PARTNERSHIP income £1.6m
• PADDINGTON DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £3.2m
• DURHAM COMMUNITY ACTION LIMITED income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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