PACT HOUSE STANLEY

Registered charity 1172612 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Pact House Stanley is hub for community access to help to reduce isolation, support people with well being, address and support local people in poverty. We support people in the local community in food poverty with food packs and through low cost and free meals in the community cafe. We help people to access services, training and information they need to improve their quality of life.

Objects

1) TO FURTHER OR BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF STANLEY, COUNTY DURHAM AND ITS ENVIRONS WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID RESIDENTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE RESIDENTS.2) TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES AND NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANISATIONS IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF STANLEY, COUNTY DURHAM AND ITS ENVIRONS WHICH AIM TO IN PARTICULAR ADVANCE EDUCATION, PROTECT HEALTH, RELIEVE POVERTY AND BUILD THE CAPACITY OF LOCAL RESIDENTS BY THE DEVELOPMENT OF COLLABORATIVE WORK BETWEEN ORGANISATIONS

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operates primarily with volunteers and has no reserves held, noting that the policy allows for up to 12 months of running costs but currently holds zero. The trustees confirm there are no uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern, although they identify rising costs, utilities, and rents as principal risks.

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
• 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
• 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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 21/02/2025, 21 days after the 31/01/2025 due date); year ending 31/03/2023 (received 08/02/2024, 8 days after the 31/01/2024 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 — PACT House Stanley (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Clarkechair
• Bryan Fergus Irving
• Daniel Clark
• Julie Green
• Sharon Mcilvaney

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.

Government & lottery funding

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