THE SENSORY PLACE

Registered charity 1195932 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Sensory Place provide a wide range of inclusive activities for disabled children and their families across Sunderland, County Durham and surrounding areas. This includes social, leisure and sporting activities. We provide safe and non-judgemental spaces where everyone is able to be themselves and where families can meet other likeminded families. We also provide courses for parents and carers.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH ADDITIONAL NEEDS AND DISABILITIES AND THEIR PARENTS, CARERS AND SIBLINGS IN THE NORTH-EAST OF ENGLAND BY PROVIDING A SUPPORT NETWORK IN THE FORM OF SUPPORT GROUPS, SENSORY FRIENDLY ACTIVITIES, TRAINING COURSES AND FACILITIES FOR PLAY, SPORT AND RECREATION IN A SAFE, SECURE AND NON-JUDGMENTAL ENVIRONMENT.TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION AMONGST PARENTS/CARERS WHO ARE SOCIALLY ISOLATED OR EXCLUDED AS A RESULT OF THEIR CHILD?S CONDITION BY PROVIDING INFORMATION, ADVICE, GUIDANCE, PRACTICAL SUPPORT AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THEIR LIFE CONDITIONS.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £57,807, driven by a net movement in funds of £5,243 against income of £121,905. Unrestricted reserves rose to £37,463, while restricted funds decreased slightly to £20,344. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters were identified during the examination of the accounts.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Sensory Place (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amy Henderson
• Ann Young
• Helen Elizabeth Abernethy
• Lucinda Mary Horsley
• Rebecca Follesa

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

Operates in: Durham · Hartlepool · South Tyneside · Sunderland

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Sense Ability Matters LTD..

• Sense Ability Matters LTD. income £744k
• A PLACE TO CALL OUR OWN LIMITED income £1.3m
• SENSE, THE NATIONAL DEAFBLIND AND RUBELLA ASSOCIATION income £101.9m
• SENSE INTERNATIONAL income £3.6m
• THE FAMILY PLACE FOUNDATION income £224k
• PAUL'S PLACE (SOUTH WEST) income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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