FELLING COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION CIO

Registered charity 1173631 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Association has existed for over 45 years, providing various activities for all ages and interests within the Felling Community Centre. The Centre provides access to low cost room hire for the provision of:-Adult Learning and Training facilitiesSequence Dancing eveningsKeep fit & low impact exercisesLuncheon Clubs and Cookery classes& is always looking at new group hire.

Objects

TO FURTHER OR BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF FELLING AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS OF GATESHEAD ("THE AREA OF BENEFIT"), 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. IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE OBJECTS BUT NOT OTHERWISE, THE TRUSTEES SHALL HAVE POWER: TO ESTABLISH OR SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY CENTRE AND TO MAINTAIN OR MANAGE OR CO-OPERATE WITH ANY STATUTORY AUTHORITY IN THE MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF SUCH A CENTRE FOR ACTIVITIES PROMOTED BY THE CHARITY IN FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated with a surplus of £2,781 and held unrestricted reserves of £68,369 at year-end. The trustees consider these reserves prudent and note that cash reserves are equivalent to approximately 3.5 years of expenditure, providing a strong financial buffer. The charity is entirely volunteer-led with no paid staff, and the independent examiner reported no material matters requiring attention.

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.

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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/02/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Karen Llewellynchair
• Chanel Sexton
• Claire Hutchinson
• David Kenneth Brown · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Semmence
• Diane Semmence
• Joanne Myers
• MBE MAUREEN SOUTHERN

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

Operates in: Gateshead

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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