HEALTHWATCH HARTLEPOOL

Registered charity 1165402 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q104605720

The advancement of health and wellbeing

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP BY:(A) PROVIDING INFORMATION AND ADVICE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC ABOUT LOCAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE SERVICES;(B) MAKING THE VIEWS AND EXPERIENCES OF MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC KNOWN TO HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE PROVIDERS;(C) ENABLING LOCAL PEOPLE TO HAVE A VOICE IN THE DEVELOPMENT, DELIVERY AND EQUALITY OF ACCESS TO LOCAL HEALTH AND CARE SERVICES AND FACILITIES AND;(D) PROVIDING TRAINING AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF SKILLS FOR VOLUNTEERS AND THE WIDER COMMUNITY IN UNDERSTANDING, SCRUTINIZING, REVIEWING AND MONITORING LOCAL HEALTH AND CARE SERVICES AND FACILITIES.

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 · website · 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 Healthwatch Hartlepool is solely funded by Hartlepool Borough Council as a commissioned service, with additional income from consultations. For the year ended 31 March 2025, the charity reported total receipts of £173,465 and total payments of £168,897, resulting in a net surplus and unrestricted cash funds of £57,317 at year-end.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jane Tillychair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ANTHONY RAINE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Carol Ann Sherwood
• JAN WEEDALL HNC
• MARGARET MARY WRENN

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

Operates in: Hartlepool

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HEALTHWATCH CITY OF LONDON.

• HEALTHWATCH CITY OF LONDON income £98k
• HEALTHWATCH HERTFORDSHIRE LIMITED income £574k
• HEALTHWATCH HILLINGDON income £232k
• HEALTHWATCH NORTH YORKSHIRE income £265k
• HEALTHWATCH NORFOLK income £833k
• HEALTHWATCH ISLINGTON income £695k

Side by side with its peers

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