WHITBY AREA DEVELOPMENT TRUST

Registered charity 518451 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NETWORK, THE WHITBY RESOURCE CENTRE, WHITBY NETWORK

The promotion for the benefit of the public of urban or rural regeneration in areas of social and economic deprivation (and in particular in the Whitby district and surrounding area).

Objects

THE PROMOTION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC OF URBAN OR RURAL REGENERATION IN AREAS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION (AND IN PARTICULAR IN THE WHITBY DISTRICT AND SURROUNDING AREAS)

Area of benefit: WHITBY AND DISTRICT

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a total deficit of £8,602 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in free reserves of -£21,507. The trustees note that free reserves before lease commitments are £40,618, equivalent to two months' normal operating expenditure, which they believe should safeguard continued operation.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOHN MCEACHENchair
• MALCOLM EDGAR WATT
• NIALL CARSON
• SIR FREDERIC STRICKLAND-CONSTABLE · trustee of 1 other charity
• SUE BOYCE

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

Operates in: North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WHITBY LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.

• WHITBY LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY income £379k
• DALEWOOD TRUST income £955k
• WHITBY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP income £143k
• PADDINGTON DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £3.2m
• MANOR AND CASTLE DEVELOPMENT TRUST LIMITED income £2.6m
• WHITLEIGH COMMUNITY TRUST income £247k

Side by side with its peers

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