THE WELLSPRING(STOCKPORT) LIMITED

Registered charity 1157268 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE WELLSPRING

To provide food, drinks, clothing and a hot shower every day of the year to homeless and disadvantaged people plus advice on housing, debt, jobs, health( with a nurse available 2 days a week and a doctor 2 days a week) and drugs and alcohol and classes in English, Maths, IT and art. To provide advocacy on benefit and housing appeals. To promote health, safety and confidence building.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ("OBJECTS") ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:4.1 THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS ARISING OF PERSONS WHO ARE HOMELESS OR AT RISK OF BECOMING HOMELESS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE PROVISION OF SUPPORTED HOUSING, AND ASSOCIATED FACILITIES, TO PROVIDE FOR THE CARE AND RESETTLEMENT OF HOMELESS PEOPLE IN NEED IN STOCKPORT BY ENCOURAGING THE DEVELOPMENT OF LIFE SKILLS TO ASSIST THEM INTO INDEPENDENT LIVING AS PART OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY IN STOCKPORT AND THE SURROUNDING AREA.4.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF CLASSES IN ENGLISH AND MATHS.4.3 THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE SUPPORT, CARE AND TREATMENT OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM THE EFFECTS OF POVERTY, SICKNESS, DISABILITY, OLD AGE, ALCOHOLISM, DRUG ADDICTION, OR ANY OTHER MENTAL OR PHYSICAL INFIRMITY.4.4 SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Stockport, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £76,184 for the year ended 31 March 2025, reversing a prior-year deficit. Total funds increased to £1,351,862, with unrestricted revenue funds standing at £459,223. The trustees consider the financial performance satisfactory and report a period of relative stability.

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 5 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2021 (received 03/02/2022, 3 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Wellspring (Stockport) (matched by registered charity number).

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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~10.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/08/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW AYRESchair
• ANN PAULINE COOKE
• Caroline Mary Joanna Newns
• Dennis Whiteley
• John Edmund Rackstraw
• Mark Whylie
• PETER BURNS
• PETER HODSKINSON MBE
• Paul Nicholas Brearley · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Derbyshire · Manchester City · Stockport · Tameside

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WELLSPRING THERAPY & TRAINING.

• WELLSPRING THERAPY & TRAINING income £372k
• WELLSPRING CHURCH (WATFORD) income £675k
• WELLSPRING CHRISTIAN CENTRE income £121k
• Wellsprings Community Church income £181k
• DAYSPRING CHAPEL MINISTRIES income £235k
• WELLSPRINGS TOGETHER income £148k

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