STANLEYS COMMUNITY CENTRE

Registered charity 1183140 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Stanleys Community Centre runs activities and sessions which are designed to improve health and well-being for all its community members. Stanleys promotes partnership working and social prescribing as a way of achieving personal and collective growth. The charity lease a building known as Stanleys in the West End of Morecambe

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARETO FURTHER OR BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF MORECAMBE AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD, 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 ORGANISATION’S 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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Lancaster, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £86,760 for the year, increasing its total funds to £215,981. The trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves of £95,966 are sufficient to meet continuing obligations for a minimum of three months, and no material uncertainties exist regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• 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)

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

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Cary Matthewschair
• Charmaine Rothwell
• Chris Berry
• Harriet Phipps
• Karen Wisbach

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

Operates in: Lancashire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST MARYS SOCIAL CENTRE.

• ST MARYS SOCIAL CENTRE income £33k
• STAINLAND AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY CHARITY income £33k
• STANLEY VILLAGE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £26k
• ST. PANCRAS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £482k
• ST STEPHENS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £45k
• ST OSWALD'S WEST END CENTRE income £136k

Side by side with its peers

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