SOUTHGATE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP

Registered charity 1142873 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SCP

Owns and manages Southgate Community Centre in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk providing a range of leisure, sporting, social and educational services for people of all ages in the local area, including those with physical and learning disabilites. It is also a base for Southgate Church - a local ecumenical partnership sponsored by the Anglican, Baptist and URC Churches.

Objects

TO FURTHER OR BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF SOUTHGATE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID RESIDENTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE RESIDENTS. IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE OBJECTS BUT NOT OTHERWISE, THE TRUSTEES SHALL HAVE POWER: TO ESTABLISH OR SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY CENTRE AND TO MAINTAIN OR MANAGE OR CO-OPERATE WITH ANY STATUTORY AUTHORITY IN THE MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF SUCH A CENTRE FOR ACTIVITIES PROMOTED BY THE CHARITY IN FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS.

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 · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: West Suffolk, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £12,528 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total incoming resources of £82,766 against expenditure of £70,238. Unrestricted reserves stood at £187,444, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of maintaining a reserve to cover three months of overheads. The accounts were subject to independent examination rather than audit, with no material matters identified by the examiner.

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 6 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07469255

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.

• SHORT, Erica — director, appointed 22/11/2022on trustee list
• RUDD, Jessica Paula — director, appointed 21/09/2021on trustee list
• STAMP, Sarah Anne — director, appointed 19/07/2021not on trustee list
• DUTTON, David Reuben Churchill — director, appointed 16/03/2019on trustee list
• ROUT, Richard Raydon — director, appointed 27/07/2017on trustee list
• HEAVISIDES, Robert — director, appointed 15/10/2013on trustee list
• ABBOTT, Andrew Simon Marcus — director, appointed 15/10/2013on trustee list
• CHUNG, Hung Chow — director, appointed 14/05/2013on trustee list
• BALL, Terence Michael — director, appointed 15/07/2011on trustee list
• JONES, Robert Howard — director, appointed 14/12/2010on trustee list
• JONES, Robert Howard — secretary, appointed 14/12/2010

Official officers record.

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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/06/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Simon Marcus Abbottchair
• David Reuben Churchill Dutton
• Erica Short
• HUNG CHOW CHUNG
• Jessica Paula Rudd
• Richard Raydon Rout
• Robert Heavisides
• Robert Howard Jones
• Sarah-Anne Stamp
• Terence Michael BALL

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COMMUNITY SOUTHWARK.

• COMMUNITY SOUTHWARK income £1.4m
• SOUTHSIDE PARTNERSHIP income £19.4m
• SOUTHWICK COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £333k
• SOUTHMEAD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £41k
• SOUTHGATE DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £307k
• THE SOUTHGATE SPORTS AND LEISURE TRUST income £179k

Side by side with its peers

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