STARFISH SERVICES LIMITED

Registered charity 1146237 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote and protect the physical and mental health of sufferers of mental disorders or conditions of emotional or mental distress through the provision of support services, premises to provide support services, education and practical advice to advance the education of the general public in all areas relating to mental disorders or conditions of emotional or mental distress.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM MENTAL ILLNESS OF ANY DESCRIPTION OR IN NEED OF REHABILITATION AS A RESULT OF SUCH ILLNESS, AND ASSIST IN THE TREATMENT AND CARE BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR WORK AND RECREATION.TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF SUFFERERS OF MENTAL DISORDERS OR CONDITIONS OF EMOTIONAL OR MENTAL DISTRESS THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT SERVICES, PREMISES TO PROVIDE SUPPORTSERVICES, EDUCATION AND PRACTICAL ADVICE TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN ALL AREASRELATING TO MENTAL DISORDERS OR CONDITIONS OF EMOTIONAL OR MENTAL DISTRESS.

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 · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £1,234 for the year, with total income of £75,672 against outgoing resources of £76,906. The trustees maintain unrestricted free reserves of £45,318, which they consider sufficient to meet their policy target of six months' operating costs. The independent examiner confirmed that no matters gave cause to believe the accounts were inaccurate or non-compliant.

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 4 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
• Investment
• 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

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 06959904 · 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.

• WAKELING, Catherine — director, appointed 01/08/2026on trustee list
• TRIMBLE, Leigh Margaret — director, appointed 04/02/2025on trustee list
• DOUGHERTY, Lewis Mark — secretary, appointed 01/03/2022

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• IAIN CALDWELLchair
• CATHERINE WAKELING
• Leigh Margaret Trimble

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

Operates in: Durham · Hartlepool · Staffordshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with STARFISH GREATHEARTS FOUNDATION.

• STARFISH GREATHEARTS FOUNDATION income £343k
• BLYTH STAR ENTERPRISES LIMITED income £2.6m
• LEICESTERSHIRE ACTION FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROJECT income £332k
• IMAGINE INDEPENDENCE income £12.0m
• FREED income £152k
• MAKING MIRACLES income £301k

Side by side with its peers

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