NORTH EAST AREA MINERS' SOCIAL WELFARE TRUST FUND

Registered charity 504178 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NORTH EAST AREA MINERS' WELFARE TRUST FUND

Promotion of health, the relief of poverty, advancement of training and social and recreational activities, provision of convalescence for the relief of sickness of beneficiaries.

Objects

FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES WITHIN THE OBJECTS OF THE ORGANISATION IN THE COUNTIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND, DURHAM AND TYNE AND WEAR AS THE COUNCIL OF THE ORGANISATION MAY AFTER CONSULTATION WITH THE WELFARE COMMITTEE DETERMINE

Area of benefit: NORTH EAST AREA COALFIELD

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Rotherham, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£64k
Latest spending
£126k
Registered
1975
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £1.850m at the end of the financial year, an increase from £1.819m the previous year. The trustees report that the charity has adequate reserves to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and identified no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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 3 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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/09/2025

  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/09/2024

  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/09/2023

  • Grant-making is its main activity

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

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

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/09/2025£64k£126k
30/09/2024£57k£58k
30/09/2023£67k£627k
30/09/2022£58k£36k
30/09/2021£54k£37k

Common questions

Is NORTH EAST AREA MINERS' SOCIAL WELFARE TRUST FUND financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £1.850m at the end of the financial year, an increase from £1.819m the previous year. The trustees report that the charity has adequate reserves to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and identified no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
NORTH EAST AREA MINERS' SOCIAL WELFARE TRUST FUND£64k—0unclear—no doubt
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE MINERS WELFARE TRUST FUND SCHEME FY2025£141k——unclear—no doubt
CEFN FFOREST MINERS' WELFARE HALL FY2025£91k—0below—no doubt
MOSBOROUGH MINERS' WELFARE TRUST FY2025£100k——unclear—no doubt
GROUNDWORK NORTH EAST FY2025£8.2m——unclear—no doubt
NEWSTEAD COLLIERY MINERS' WELFARE TRUST FY2025£189k—0unclear—no doubt

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