BLYTH STAR ENTERPRISES LIMITED

Registered charity 519443 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To work with people who experience mental ill health and or learning and other disabilities, to enable them to live and work independently within their own local community and to support them towards achieving a quality of life. The provision of community residential rehabilitation, living support, meaningful day time activities, training and employment training services.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM MENTAL ILLNESS WHETHER SHORT TERM OR LONGTERM IN THE AREA OF NORTHUMBERLAND AND TYNE AND WEAR BY THE PROVISION OF TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION AND BY THE PROVISION OF REHABILITATION WORKSHOPS.

Area of benefit: NORTHUMBERLAND AND TYNE AND WEAR.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Accommodation/housing · 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 total reserves grew to £2,790,309, with unrestricted reserves at £2,588,693, exceeding the trustees' policy target of six months' running costs (£1,191,355) by £1,397,338. The charity reported a net income surplus of £258,635 for the year, driven by organic growth in service delivery and increased income from charitable activities. The trustees maintain a prudent approach to reserves amidst ongoing uncertainty in the social care sector.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bell Tindle Williamson LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 2 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 01/02/2024, 1 day after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02152943

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — BLYTH STAR ENTERPRISES (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• JACKSON, Michael Edward — director, appointed 31/01/2025on trustee list
• RAILTON, Anthony John — director, appointed 31/01/2025on trustee list
• CHRISP, Timothy Paul — director, appointed 18/12/1995not on trustee list
• GIBSON, Stephen William — directoron trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

6 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 freehold); recorded price paid £272k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Blyth Star Enterprises Limited — Deregistered, 2 registered locations, last inspected 08/01/2016.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Reported reserves equal ~13.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (88% 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

• MR TIM CHRISPchair
• Anthony John RAILTON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Susan McAnelly JP
• Gordon Moore MBE
• Joanne Hunter
• Michael Jackson
• STEPHEN GIBSON
• Sharon Herron

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

Operates in: 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.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BLYTH RESOURCE & INITIATIVE CENTRE.

• BLYTH RESOURCE & INITIATIVE CENTRE income £159k
• BERKSHIRE HEALTH & WELL-BEING SOCIAL ENTERPRISES income £174k
• BRISTOL MIND income £571k
• PUDSEY WELLBEING CHARITY income £72k
• THE BRIGITTE TRUST income £335k
• THE BROTHERS TRUST income £597k

Side by side with its peers

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