ST MARGARET'S CENTRE

Registered charity 1160900 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The St Margaret?s Centre supports adults of all ages with mental health issues and other disabilities. It provides a welcoming therapeutic environment which encourages individuals to gain self esteem-confidence, learn new skills and to develop their potential .The overall aim is to improve the quality of their lives in as many ways as possible.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE ANY SUCH PURPOSES AS ARE RECOGNISED FROM TIME TO TIME BY THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES TO BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) :-1. TO ESTABLISH AND PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR PERSONS IRRESPECTIVE OF RACE RELIGION OR GENDER WHO ARE OR HAVE BEEN SUFFERING FROM ANY FORM OF SCHIZOPHRENIA OR OTHER MENTAL ILLNESS OR PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDER BY THE PROVISION OF DAY CARE FACILITIES; OR2. TO PROMOTE THE PRESERVATION AND SAFEGUARDING OF THE MENTAL HEALTH AND GENERAL RELIEF OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM SUCH MENTAL DISORDERS INCLUDING THOSE WITH ANY ASSOCIATED PHYSICAL OR OTHER DISABILITY; OR3. TO PROVIDE DAY CARE AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE OR OF RECREATION OR OF LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS; OR4. TO PROVIDE APPROPRIATE TRAINING TO ASSIST IN THE REHABILITATION OF SUCH PERSONS WITH THE AIM OF RESTORING THEM TO THE COMMUNITY IN PAID EMPLOYMENT; AND5. TO MAKE DONATIONS TO SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTION OR INSTITUTIONS AT SUCH TIME OR TIMES AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The provided document is an operational annual report and narrative summary for the Durham Mental Wellbeing Alliance for the year ending 2026-03-31, rather than a set of statutory financial accounts. Consequently, it does not contain explicit financial statements, balance sheets, or income and expenditure accounts from which to extract reserves, fundraising costs, or emoluments data. The text focuses on service delivery, client outcomes, and partnership impact statements without disclosing specific financial figures or audit opinions.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2025) → no going-concern doubt (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — St Margaret's Centre (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• Banks Group — “We'd like to share a big thank you to the Banks Group for supporting the Centre once again with a £2,000 grant towards tools and supplies” (source page)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/12/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Welsh
• Dr Mary Gerardine Quinn
• ELIZABETH MARY MCCABE
• Elizabeth Alpass
• Elizabeth Hare
• JOHN WOODS
• Karen Langdon
• Mark Prinn
• Rev Barnaby Thomas Huish · trustee of 2 other charities
• The Revd Canon Gavin Wort

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

Operates in: Durham

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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 ST. MARY'S CENTRE COMMUNITY HALL.

• ST. MARY'S CENTRE COMMUNITY HALL income £70k
• ST MARGARET CENTRE income £33k
• ST ANDREW'S HEALTHCARE income £235.6m
• WANDSWORTH CARERS' CENTRE income £955k
• AGE CONCERN PERRANPORTH AND DISTRICT income £42k
• ST. MARY ABBOTS REHABILITATION AND TRAINING PROJECTS (SMART) income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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