SHILDON ALIVE

Registered charity 1184489 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Activities include: Food for all programme, nutritious take away, Credit Union, Advocacy Support, Job Search, Foodbank, Youthgroup, Pop up Ping Pong Parlour, Community Gardens, intergenerational learning, Dementia Cafe, Activities and free snacks for children and young people during school holidays, community gardening, partnership work with schools and other local groups.

Objects

TO FURTHER OR BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF SHILDON 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 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.THE RELIEF OF POVERTY OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING A FOOD BANK AND A RANGE OF IMPARTIAL MONEY ADVICE AND SUPPORT SERVICES TO PEOPLE IN FINANCIAL HARDSHIP TO HELP THEM ACHIEVE GREATER FINANCIAL RESILIENCE AND CAPABILITY

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds total £249,857, which exceeds the trustees' stated reserves policy target of £60,000. The charity reported a net deficit of £14,281 for the year, with total income of £333,073 and total expenditure of £347,354.

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
• Investing charity funds 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £42k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Carol Harrischair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ANDREW FARLOW
• Dorothy Truby · trustee of 1 other charity
• ELEANOR JANE CRAWFORD
• Rev FRANCES COOPER
• Samantha Townsend · trustee of 1 other charity
• Tracey Oxley

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

Operates in: Durham

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE LIFE CHURCH - MAIDSTONE.

• THE LIFE CHURCH - MAIDSTONE income £254k
• ACTIVITEENS income £144k
• SPLASH FOR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES income £48k
• THE SWINDON U3A income £119k
• THE ACTIVITY DEN income £103k
• SOCIAL, HEALTH, ASSISTANCE, RECONCILIATION, EDUCATION income £42k

Side by side with its peers

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