EDBERTS HOUSE

Registered charity 1127388 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Edberts House builds happier, healthier, fairer communities in Gateshead. Through four community houses, social prescribing in primary and secondary care and schools, and initiatives like Compassionate Gateshead, we connect people to services and decision-makers, empower local change, and tackle inequalities.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£2.1m
Latest spending
£2.1m
Registered
2009
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £19,645 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £2,100,400 and expenditure of £2,080,755. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves rose to £504,680, exceeding the stated policy target of £480,000, while cash balances decreased to £529,159 due to increased accounts receivable.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Robson Laidler Accountants Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Edberts House (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Total income
£2.1m
Total spending
£2.1m
Reserves (reported)
£768k
Employees
53

Reported reserves equal ~4.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (83% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Gateshead

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£2.1m£2.1m
31/03/2024£1.7m£1.6m
31/03/2023£1.6m£1.5m
31/03/2022£1.2m£1.1m
31/03/2021£1.1m£844k

Common questions

Is EDBERTS HOUSE financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £19,645 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £2,100,400 and expenditure of £2,080,755. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves rose to £504,680, exceeding the stated policy target of £480,000, while cash balances decreased to £529,159 due to increased accounts receivable. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Robson Laidler Accountants Limited.

Who funds EDBERTS HOUSE?

Funders whose own accounts filings name EDBERTS HOUSE as a grant recipient include THE BALLINGER CHARITABLE TRUST, THE VIRGIN MONEY FOUNDATION.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE BALLINGER CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£20k
THE BALLINGER CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£20k
THE VIRGIN MONEY FOUNDATIONFY2021£500Community Anchors' Fund / General Grants

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund24/10/2025£20kCompassionate Gateshead
Community Foundation North East17/07/2025£10kGrant to Edberts House
Community Foundation North East26/06/2025£7kGrant to Edberts House
Community Foundation North East20/03/2025£1kGrant to Edberts House
Community Foundation North East17/11/2022£1kGrant to Edberts House
Community Foundation North East25/11/2021£1kA grant to Edberts House
Community Foundation North East15/07/2021£8kA grant to Edberts House
Community Foundation North East20/05/2021£3kA grant to Edberts House
UK government01/04/2019£22kBuilding Connections Fund
UK government22/02/2019£34kThrive in Beacon Lough East
UK government02/01/2019£22kBuilding Connections Fund
Community Foundation North East09/10/2018£5kCommunity Pantomime to celebrate and support cohesion
Community Foundation North East17/08/2017£2kMega Club - after school club for 5-11 year olds
Community Foundation North East11/05/2017£300Celebration of Volunteering
Community Foundation North East18/11/2016£10kTowards Additional financial management capacity
The National Lottery Community Fund13/10/2016£10kCelebrate East Gateshead
Community Foundation North East01/12/2015£1kTowards Heritage Crafts
Community Foundation North East07/04/2015£968Towards Programme of sporting and heritage related activities for young people
The National Lottery Community Fund18/05/2011£10kEdberts House

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BIG LOCAL GATESHEAD.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
EDBERTS HOUSE£2.1m—0unclear—no doubt
BIG LOCAL GATESHEAD FY2025£149k—0unclear—no doubt
JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GATESHEAD FY2025£514k—0below—no doubt
GATESHEAD HEALTH NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE FOUNDATION TRUST CHARITABLE FUND FY2025£386k—0unclear—no doubt
TYNESIDE AND NORTHUMBERLAND MIND FY2025£1.3m—0unclear—no doubt
GATESHEAD FOOTBALL CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION CIO FY2025£237k—0unclear—no doubt

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