STOMPING GROUNDS NORTH EAST

Registered charity 1205717 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Establish & maintain Forest School and Nursery settings in a variety of woodland areas in North East England. Deliver Forest School & outdoor learning activities in local woodland to children & young people. Engage communities in outdoor activities which reconnect them with natureEncourage children & their families to further engage in outdoor activities to increase health and wellbeing

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR FAMILIES FROM ALL BACKGROUNDS THROUGH THE PROVISION OF A FOREST SCHOOL AND RELATED ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE WIDER COMMUNITY IN THE NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND.

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 reported a net income surplus of £21,344 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total income rising significantly to £785,404. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £1,246, which is below the stated policy target of three months of unrestricted expenditure. The trustees consider the charity to be a going concern, citing secured funding for the current 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 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Stomping Grounds NE CIO (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (76% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jonathan Peter Joureschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Brittany Bagget
• Lucas Joseph Morris Wainwright
• Rory Whaling
• Samantha Orde · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Durham · Gateshead · Newcastle Upon Tyne City · North Tyneside · Northumberland · South Tyneside · Sunderland

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GROUNDWORK NORTH EAST.

• GROUNDWORK NORTH EAST income £8.2m
• SCHOOLS NORTHEAST income £714k
• PRESTON NORTH END COMMUNITY AND EDUCATION TRUST income £1.8m
• FOREST SCHOOL CAMPS income £471k
• ROCKINGHAM FOREST TRUST income £1.6m
• STUMP UP FOR TREES income £437k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.