THRIVE

Registered charity 1198470 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Thrive is an award-winning organisation working in Teesside, advocating for the voice of lived experience to be included in decision-making processes.We do this through research, tailored one to one support and by taking local action: bringing together local people and institutions. We have three paid members of staff, a group of dedicated volunteers and a Board of Trustees.

Objects

(1) TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND ITS EFFECTS IN THE BOROUGH OF STOCKTON-ON-TEES, MIDDLESBROUGH AND HARTLEPOOL.(2) TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY THROUGH UNDERTAKING AND SUPPORTING RESEARCH, ON A NATIONAL LEVEL, INTO FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO POVERTY AND THE MOST APPROPRIATE WAYS TO MITIGATE THESE.

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Hartlepool, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity's free reserves stood at £25,500, representing approximately two months of running costs, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of six months. The accounts state there are no material uncertainties about the charity's ability to continue, and the independent examiner reported no matters requiring attention.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Arts Council England — “We’re thrilled to share that the Rock Pools Project has been awarded £1,000,000 as part of Arts Council England’s Creative People and Places…” (source page)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/06/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• BARBARA HELEN HUNGINchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ben Carr
• Isobel Mason
• Jim Robertson
• Julie Harrison
• Stephanie Mulrine

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

Operates in: Hartlepool · Middlesbrough · Stockton-on-tees

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THRIVE LEEDS.

• THRIVE LEEDS income £56k
• THRIVE SOCIAL HOUSING income £13.0m
• THRIVE CHURCH UK income £153k
• THRIVE DANCE income £54k
• The Teesside Charity income £620k
• THRIVE TOGETHER BIRMINGHAM income £695k

Side by side with its peers

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