SKIPTON STEP INTO ACTION

Registered charity 1193149 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Mission statement: With kindness and compassion, we will step into action to mobilise and connect people within Skipton and the surrounding villages. We will offer safe spaces and engaging activities, which demonstrate and celebrate the diverse skills and gifts of every individual. Through collaboration and mutual respect we will become the strongest, happiest and healthiest community we can be

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO RELIEVE PEOPLE WITHIN SKIPTON AND THE SURROUNDING VILLAGES (AS AGREED BY THE TRUSTEES) WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF THEIR AGE, ILL HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL THINK FIT, WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON THOSE AFFECTED BY CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) OR WHO ARE AFFECTED BY OR VICTIM OF OTHER DISASTER, TROUBLE, CATASTROPHE OR WAR.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a deficit of £32,369 for the year, resulting in a reduction of unrestricted reserves to £17,673. Despite the challenging funding environment and increased competition for grants, the trustees report that the charity remains financially stable with cash balances of £101,838.

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
• 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
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Skipton Step into Action (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Edwin Owen Stephen Rothwell
• Joanne Whitehead
• Norman David Squire
• Pamela Anne Lund
• Sarah Seastron

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

Operates in: North Yorkshire

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 SKIPTON BUILDING SOCIETY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

• SKIPTON BUILDING SOCIETY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £843k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF HOLY TRINITY, SKIPTON income £285k
• SKIPTON BAPTIST CHURCH income £495k
• ACTION STATION SOUTH TYNESIDE LIMITED income £182k
• Stockport County Community Trust income £976k
• 1ST YATE SCOUT GROUP income £117k

Side by side with its peers

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