LAMESLEY CHILDCARE

Registered charity 1122506 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We offer breakfast and out of school care in 6 local schools in Gateshead as well as providing holiday care at rural Lamesley. Approximately 300 children per day use our provisions per day.

Objects

TO PROVIDE FOR THE DAILY CARE, RECREATION AND EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES OF SCHOOL AGED CHILDREN OUT OF SCHOOL HOURS AND DURING SCHOOL HOLIDAYS FOR CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES LIVING IN TYNE AND WEAR, COUNTY DURHAM AND NORTHUMBERLAND.

Area of benefit: TYNE AND WEAR, COUNTY DURHAM AND NORTHUMBERLAND

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's main source of income is parents' payments for childcare fees. The trustees hold six weekly meetings to monitor and evaluate finances, and the accounts are audited annually by BK Plus Limited.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BK Plus Limited. Discloses 4 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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06228438 · 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.

• KENNEDY, Christine Margery — director, appointed 01/09/2019on trustee list
• ALEXANDERS, Joan — director, appointed 26/04/2007on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christine Kennedy
• JOAN ALEXANDERS

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

Operates in: Gateshead · Sunderland

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Side by side with its peers

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