THE SOUTH STANLEY PARTNERSHIP

Registered charity 1173940 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

At St. Stephens we provide a very wide range of activities including groups for people with special needs, various levels of fitness programmes from seated exercise to aerobics, craft groups, war gaming plus many more. We have a community cafe with meal delivery service available. We have a community food bank for people experiencing financial hardship and we offer suspended meals.

Objects

THE OBJECT[S] OF THE CIO ARE:TO FURTHER OR BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF SOUTH STANLEY AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, 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.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · 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 reported a deficit of £15,769 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £16,865. The trustees consider the immediate future of the charity to be secure for the next 12 months, noting that a significant amount of funding has already been secured for the current year.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• 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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 28/03/2024, 57 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.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/11/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• EMMA ROSE THOMAS
• Harvey Thomas Hagen
• Jacqueline Proctor
• Josie Jefferson
• Julie Lawson
• Mara Tonothy
• Mary McMahon
• Sandra Keers

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

Operates in: Durham

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with STANLEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION.

• STANLEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £75k
• THE FRIENDSHIP CAFE income £446k
• SPORTING PENISTONE income £198k
• SOUTH MITCHAM COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £298k
• ST STEPHENS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £45k
• SOUTHEND CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP income £543k

Side by side with its peers

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