YORKSHIRE MINERS' WELFARE CONVALESCENT HOMES

Registered charity 230638 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as YMWCH

Provision of convalescent facilities to persons who are or have been employed in the coal industry, or allied activities, within Yorkshire and their wives, husbands, and dependant relatives and also widows, widowers and necessitous relatives of deceased persons (qualifying as above). The charity currently operates a convalescent home - Lynwood - in Scarborough.

Objects

THE PROVISION OF CONVALESCENT FACILITIES IN ONE OR MORE CONVALESCENT HOMES FOR THE BENEFIT OF PERSONS WHO ARE OR HAVE BEEN EMPLOYED IN THE AREA OF THE CHARITY EITHER IN THE COAL INDUSTRY OR IN ACTIVITIES ALLIED TO THOSE OF THE COAL INDUSTRY AND THEIR WIVES, HUSBANDS AND DEPENDANT RELATIVES AND THE WIDOWS, WIDOWERS AND NECESSITOUS RELATIVES OF DECEASED PERSONS WHO WERE IN THEIR LIFETIME EMPLOYED AS AFORESAID

Area of benefit: ANY AREA WHICH FORMALLY AT ANY TIME WAS COMPRISED WITHIN ANY OF THE YORKSHIRE AREAS OF THE NATIONAL COAL BOARD

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing resource of £228,867 for the year ended 31 December 2024, driven by operational losses that were partially offset by investment gains. Per the trustees' report, free reserves amounted to £434,686, which the trustees determined were sufficient to continue delivery of services into 2026. The trustees also noted that the entire permanent endowment fund was transferred to the unrestricted fund during the year to support future expenditure.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID PICKERINGchair
• Dale Longley
• Dene Coupland
• Heather Alison Wade
• Jonathan Whittle

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

Operates in: Barnsley · Doncaster · Leeds City · Rotherham · Sheffield City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NOTTINGHAMSHIRE MINERS WELFARE TRUST FUND SCHEME.

• NOTTINGHAMSHIRE MINERS WELFARE TRUST FUND SCHEME income £155k
• CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND CONVALESCENT INSTITUTION income £2.2m
• THE CHARITY OF JANE WRIGHT income £116k
• MOSBOROUGH MINERS' WELFARE TRUST income £100k
• THE COAL INDUSTRY SOCIAL WELFARE ORGANISATION income £1.4m
• COAL TRADE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION income £442k

Side by side with its peers

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