THE MCCARTHY-DIXON FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1190255 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

TMDF provides a broad range of services to communities across Northamptonshire, to improve the lives of vulnerable people and those in crisis, ranging from distributing food parcels, household items, and specialised provision for school families, to running weekly social clubs, providing doorstep visits, phone calls, transport services, and days out. Also wellbeing services and life skills classes

Objects

PRINCIPALLY FOR THOSE LIVING IN NORTHAMPTONSHIRE:A) THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY AND B) THE RELIEF OF NEED BY REASON OF ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP BY PROVIDING SERVICES, ACTIVITIES, SHELTER, FACILITIES, PERSONAL AND MATERIAL RESOURCES, FOOD AND OTHER PROVISION.

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: West Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity prepared its financial statements on a going concern basis, with trustees confirming that no material uncertainties exist regarding the organization's ability to continue operations. The budgeted income and expenditure are reported as sufficient to cover expected costs and maintain adequate reserves for the coming 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
• 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
• 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)

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 01/02/2024, 1 day 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The McCarthy-Dixon Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• Stephen Thomas Summerschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Graham Trotter
• Jacqueline O'Connell
• Mabule Sekanaisha Caswel Tema
• Marie Lally
• Michael Thomas Donnelly
• Pamela Margaret Law

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

Operates in: Ireland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with J M DIXON CHARITY.

• J M DIXON CHARITY income £22k
• THEFDF income £66k
• TRINITY CHILDCARE AND FAMILY CENTRE LTD income £566k
• YOUTH WORKS NORTHAMPTONSHIRE income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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