DEERNESS GYMNASTICS

Registered charity 1212668 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The promotion of community participation in healthy recreation in particular by the provision of facilities and coaching for gymnastics in and around Durham and the North East of England. We continue to support both young and old participants and volunteers with their continued professional development by assisting with training costs for coaching, judging and other CPD qualifications / courses.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS THE PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR PARTICIPATING IN GYMNASTICS. (FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CLAUSE ‘FACILITIES’ MEANS LAND, BUILDINGS, EQUIPMENT, ACCESS TO COACHING AND ORGANISING SPORTING ACTIVITIES).

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

Causes: Amateur Sport · Recreation · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £323,759, which the trustees state is sufficient to maintain core activities for up to six months in the event of unforeseen difficulty. The accounts were subject to an independent examination rather than an audit, with the examiner reporting no matters requiring attention. The charity operates on a going concern basis with adequate cash resources to meet its liabilities.

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
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/08/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor Warren Gregsonchair
• Andrew Burlison
• Dr John David Green

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SOUTH DURHAM GYMNASTICS.

• SOUTH DURHAM GYMNASTICS income £701k
• THE DYNAMIC GYMNASTICS FOUNDATION income £36k
• CITY OF WORCESTER GYMNASTICS income £452k
• SANDBACH GYMNASTICS FOUNDATION income £405k
• CITY OF NEWCASTLE GYMNASTICS ACADEMY LIMITED income £999k
• ERDINGTON GYMNASTICS CLUB income £878k

Side by side with its peers

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