JOURNEY ENTERPRISES LTD

Registered charity 514827 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DAYBREAK CENTRES, NORTHUMBRIA DAYBREAK

Journey supports adults with learning disability to develop life and work skills, and to maintain good health and well-being. Our services are delivered on our sites, through our community enterprises and in the wider community. The Charity's Staff work with Clients using person-centred and positive behavioural support (PBS) methods, enabling each Client to fulfil their potential.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF MENTALLY HANDICAPPED PERSONS IN ANY MANNER WHICH IS NOW OR HEREAFTER MAY BE DEEMED CHARITABLE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £72,801 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £766,455 to £693,654. The trustees consider the free reserves of £703,488 to be sufficient to deliver charitable objectives for the next twelve months. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by T R Dixon and Co Limited. 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01780839

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Elspeth McPherson — Chief Executive Officer (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Catherine Cookson Trust — “This year's funders are: Catherine Cookson Trust” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• MONTGOMERY, Sheena — director, appointed 11/07/2022on trustee list
• KENDRICK, Joanna — director, appointed 11/06/2022on trustee list
• HAWLEY, Penny — director, appointed 17/02/2022on trustee list
• BENN, Christopher — director, appointed 19/11/2020on trustee list
• SIMPSON, Barbara — director, appointed 29/04/2015on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £4k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Barbara Simpsonchair
• Christopher Benn
• Joanna Kendrick
• Penny Hawley
• Sheena Montgomery

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

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

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 JOURNEY2WORK.

• JOURNEY2WORK income £0
• JOURNEY COMMUNITIES income £107k
• JOURNEY UK income £103k
• JOURNEYMAN UK income £60k
• MOVING ON WITH LIFE & LEARNING LTD income £409k
• THE WAYS AND MEANS TRUST LIMITED income £308k

Side by side with its peers

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