Spring North Ltd.

Registered charity 1150126 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FAMILIES HEALTH AND WELL-BEING CONSORTIUM

Community capacity buildingPromote social inclusionAdvancement of healthAdvice and Activities by(i) advancing in life and helping people by developing their skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them to participate in society as independent, mature and responsible individuals,(ii) advancing education,(iii) relieving unemployment;(e) Assistance for Voluntary Organisations

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net deficit of £95,697 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds decreasing from £786,652 to £690,955. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves of £576,222 remain in excess of the stated policy target of six months' core running expenditure. The trustees and auditors confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for at least the twelve-month period following approval.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MHA. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07797133

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Arif Patel — Chair of Trustees (source)
• Claire Bennett — Vice Chair & Treasurer (source)

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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Lancashire County Council — “Spring North is proud to share the news of securing a £1.2 million contract from Lancashire County Council to continue leading the Children’…” (source page)

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.

• KAUR, Balwinder — director, appointed 11/11/2024on trustee list
• GIBBS, Ian William — director, appointed 27/04/2022on trustee list
• BENNETT, Claire Elizabeth — director, appointed 08/11/2019on trustee list
• HARTLEY-SMITH, Martin Richard — secretary, appointed 19/10/2025

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/09/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Arif Patel
• Balwinder Kaur
• Claire Bennett · trustee of 1 other charity
• Faith Marriott
• Ian William Gibbs

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

Operates in: Blackburn With Darwen · Cumbria · Lancashire · Oldham

Income and spending

Common questions

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 The Surrey Wellbeing Partnership.

• The Surrey Wellbeing Partnership income £7.4m
• HEALTH FOR ALL (LEEDS) LTD income £2.4m
• DISABILITY NORTH income £732k
• HARTLEPOOL UNITED COMMUNITY SPORTS FOUNDATION income £199k
• NORTH TYNESIDE VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY income £876k
• THE SPRING CHARITY income £140k

Side by side with its peers

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