UPPER TEESDALE AGRICULTURAL SUPPORT SERVICES

Registered charity 1120120 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of advice and education, support and mentoring to the community in the area of operation. Including the provision of a drop-in facility for young people and encouraging and supporting outside organisations and outreach working

Objects

''TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE COMMUNITY OF THE RURAL AREA OF UPPER TEESDALE AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD THEREOF THROUGH THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS.''

Area of benefit: UPPER TEESDALE

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · 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 charity reported a surplus of £54,861 for the year, with total income of £643,762 and expenditure of £588,901. Free reserves stood at £269,576, which the trustees state is in accordance with their policy target of covering six to twelve months of operating costs. The accounts were subject to independent examination rather than audit, with the examiner reporting no matters requiring attention.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06054331 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• MARLBOROUGH-BOOCOCK, John Kevin — director, appointed 26/05/2026on trustee list
• BARES, Lynda Mary — director, appointed 26/05/2026on trustee list
• HOBSON, Allan David — director, appointed 11/03/2026on trustee list
• PEAT, Martin Roger — director, appointed 12/03/2025on trustee list
• LUMB, Stephen Andrew, Dr — director, appointed 08/03/2022on trustee list
• LAMB, Philip William — director, appointed 08/03/2022on trustee list
• MCGARRY, Michael Bernard — director, appointed 03/07/2018on trustee list
• SIMPSON, Lynn Amanda — director, appointed 26/09/2017on trustee list
• STEPHENSON, Carl — director, appointed 18/03/2014on trustee list
• MATTHEWS, Richard Ian — director, appointed 14/05/2013on trustee list
• SPRY, Emma Louise — secretary, appointed 12/03/2025

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Michael Bernard MCGARRYchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• Allan David Hobson
• Amanda Simpson
• Carl Stephenson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Stephen Lumb
• John Kevin Marlborough-Boocock
• Lynda Mary Bares
• Martin Roger Peat
• Philip William Lamb
• RICHARD IAN MATTHEWS
• Robert Danby · trustee of 2 other charities

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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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

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with The Teesside Charity.

• The Teesside Charity income £620k
• NORTH LONSDALE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £42k
• THE FARMING COMMUNITY NETWORK income £1.8m
• TAVISTOCK AREA SUPPORT SERVICES income £194k
• PETERBOROUGH UNITED FOUNDATION income £720k
• HAMPSTEAD GARDEN SUBURB FREE CHURCH income £329k

Side by side with its peers

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