TEAMS AND BENSHAM COMMUNITY CARE

Registered charity 1122735 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We provide a range of community services to eldery and disabled residents in the Borough of Gateshead, e.g. day clubs, exercise, social activites, arts & crafts

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF THE AGED AND THE PHYSICALLY DISABLED IN THE BOROUGH OF GATESHEAD IN THE COUNTY OF TYNE & WEAR IN ANY MANNER DEEMED BY LAW TO BE CHARITABLE2 TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR THOSE PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECTS OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE; AND3 TO PROVIDE ACTIVITIES WHICH ASSIST IN THE PROMOTION OF HEALTH

Area of benefit: GATESHEAD

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a total surplus of £54,737 for the year ended 31 March 2026, with unrestricted funds totaling £31,623. The trustees consider the charity to be in a financially stable position with no concerns regarding its continuing existence. However, the unrestricted reserves are below the stated policy target of maintaining at least six months of charitable expenditure.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2025) to "below" (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed 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
• 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 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANGELA CHIRNSIDE
• BERNADETTE GILL
• DOCTOR MARGARET SHERRATT · trustee of 1 other charity
• EILEEN MCMASTER · trustee of 3 other charities
• REVEREND BRIAN HOWELL · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Gateshead

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 TEAMS LIFE CENTRE.

• TEAMS LIFE CENTRE income £178k
• MEASHAM COMMUNITY AND RECREATION CENTRE income £226k
• PELSALL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £171k
• COMMUNITY CARE OPTIONS income £705k
• THE COLCHESTER AND TENDRING COMMUNITY TRUST income £213k
• THE EDWARD BETHAM FRIENDS ASSOCIATION income £30k

Side by side with its peers

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