NORTHUMBERLAND COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE LIMITED

Registered charity 1174831 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

NCEL operates various initiatives and projects to better the lives of disadvantaged people living within Stobhill and throughout South East Northumberland. Our services are open to all age ranges and run from our Stobhill Link Community Hub. We offer volunteer opportunities and address local issues such as health and wellbeing, unemployment, skills building, horticulture and social inclusion.

Objects

(1) THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN SUCH WAYS AS MAY BE THOUGHT FIT, INCLUDING ASSISTANCE TO FIND EMPLOYMENT; (2) TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AMONG ELDERLY PERSONS WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY AS A RESULT OF THEIR AGE, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY;(3) THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONG PEOPLE LIVING OR WORKING IN SOUTH EAST NORTHUMBERLAND BUT ALSO WHEREVER OUR SERVICES ARE REQUESTED THROUGH NORTHUMBERLAND AND TYNESIDE, BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH SERVICES AND ADVICE WHICH THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE AFFORD THROUGH LACK OF MEANS OR THAT ARE NOT OTHERWISE AVAILABLE TO THEM THROUGH LACK OF OPPORTUNITY;(4) TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE MEMBERS OF SOCIALLY, ECONOMICALLY AND DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES OF SOUTH EAST NORTHUMBERLAND BUT ALSO WHEREVER OUR SERVICES ARE REQUESTED THROUGH NORTHUMBERLAND AND TYNESIDE IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP MEET THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY;(5) TO HELP YOUNG PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES, SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR CAPABILITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY.

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £3,712 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £79,251 against total expenditure of £82,963. Unrestricted reserves decreased to £6,543 from £14,159 in the previous year. The trustees consider the charity to be a going concern and confident it can meet its obligations as they fall due.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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)

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

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID WEATHERHEADchair
• ANN PURVIS
• Derek Thompson
• John Beynon
• MARJORIE HASWELL

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

Operates in: Northumberland

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 NORTHFIELD COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP - A COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST LIMITED.

• NORTHFIELD COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP - A COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST LIMITED income £1.4m
• NORTHCHURCH COMMUNITY CENTRE income £58k
• THE NORTHUMBRIA COMMUNITY TRUST income £380k
• THE NORTH NORTHUMBERLAND HOSPICE income £1.2m
• NORTHSIDE COMMUNITY CENTRE LIMITED income £60k
• NORTHMOOR COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £177k

Side by side with its peers

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