SEAHAM YOUTH CENTRE

Registered charity 1163327 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SYC, Seaham Youth & Community Centre

Youth Provision - Junior and Senior sessions. Football, Cricket, Short Tennis, Basketball, Badminton, Table tennis and multi sports available in the Sports Hall. Rooms available for education, training and meetings. Toddler, Youth and Drama groups. Various competitions (Dance, Leek, Wrestling etc). Celebration events.

Objects

TO HELP YOUNG PEOPLE WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF RACE OR SEX OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER BELIEF OR OPINION THROUGH LEISURE-TIME ACTIVITIES SO TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDICIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED.

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 · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

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

Latest income

£134k

Latest spending

£130k

Registered

2015

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a profit of £4,638 for the year ending 31st December 2025, with total income of £134,425 and expenditure of £129,787. The closing fund balance was reported as £89,036, although an adjustment of £957 was noted in the reconciliation to the bank statement. The independent examiner reported that no matters came to their attention that the trustees were unaware of and that the accounts accorded with accounting requirements.

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 3 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
Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Volunteers: 11
Government income: £21,500 — contracts £10,750 (3), grants £10,750 (3); 16% of the £134,425 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Volunteers: 10

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

Volunteers: 10
Government income: £12,500 — grants £12,500 (2); 21% of the £58,226 total gross income on the same return

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Register events

Received assets from another charity (10/12/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Bradley James Whartonchair
Alison Simpson
Clifford M Remmer
Dorothy Porteous
Linda Holloway

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

Operates in: Durham

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£134k	£130k
31/12/2024	£169k	£88k
31/12/2023	£58k	£52k
31/12/2022	£57k	£77k
31/12/2021	£64k	£74k

Common questions

Is SEAHAM YOUTH CENTRE financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated a profit of £4,638 for the year ending 31st December 2025, with total income of £134,425 and expenditure of £129,787. The closing fund balance was reported as £89,036, although an adjustment of £957 was noted in the reconciliation to the bank statement. The independent examiner reported that no matters came to their attention that the trustees were unaware of and that the accounts accorded with accounting requirements. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds SEAHAM YOUTH CENTRE?

Funders whose own accounts filings name SEAHAM YOUTH CENTRE as a grant recipient include Point North Community Foundation.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
Point North Community Foundation	FY2025	£38k

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	16/09/2024	£20k	Seaham Youth Sessions
UK government	25/08/2020	£10k	Coronavirus Community Support Fund
Northern Rock Foundation	21/07/2000	£3k	Grant awarded to Seaham Youth Centre (Durham)

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE LONDON MARATHON CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED	1	£70k
MERTON VOLUNTARY SERVICE COUNCIL	1	£29k
CHARITY OF SIR RICHARD WHITTINGTON	1	£25k
THE ASDA FOUNDATION	1	£24k
OCEAN REGENERATION TRUST	1	£8k
QUARTET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	1	£7k
THE ROPER FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£5k
THE DAVID FAMILY FOUNDATION	1	£4k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YATTON YOUTH CLUB.

YATTON YOUTH CLUB income £52k
SOUTH MITCHAM COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £298k
TWYFORD DISTRICT YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTRE income £31k
BATHEASTON YOUTH CLUB income £77k
MARDYKE YOUTH AND COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £87k
NEWTON AYCLIFFE YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTRE income £101k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
SEAHAM YOUTH CENTRE	£134k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
YATTON YOUTH CLUB FY2025	£52k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
SOUTH MITCHAM COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION FY2025	£298k	—	0	below	—	no doubt
TWYFORD DISTRICT YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTRE FY2025	£31k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
BATHEASTON YOUTH CLUB FY2025	£77k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
MARDYKE YOUTH AND COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION FY2025	£87k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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