CHESTER-LE-STREET COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 520753 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Educational and recreational.

Objects

A COMMUNITY CENTRE.

Area of benefit: CHETER-LE-STREET AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£110k

Latest spending

£110k

Registered

1969

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity produced a surplus of £572 for the year ended 30 September 2025, marking its first year producing accounts on an accruals basis. Free reserves are reported at £86,036, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet the Association's needs. The financial statement notes that while utility costs have decreased, the trend is upward, and wages increased by 7.4%.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Room hire

“Room hire charges again showed healthy growth of 10.4% on the previous year. This was a result of a mix of increased charges from April 2025 and a higher level of activity.” — page 6

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

Gary Saunders
Jean Martin
Paula Louise Windram
Robert Graham

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

Operates in: Durham

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
30/09/2025	£110k	£110k
30/09/2024	£95k	£96k
30/09/2023	£81k	£83k
30/09/2022	£103k	£102k
31/03/2021	£75k	£59k

Common questions

Is CHESTER-LE-STREET COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity produced a surplus of £572 for the year ended 30 September 2025, marking its first year producing accounts on an accruals basis. Free reserves are reported at £86,036, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet the Association's needs. The financial statement notes that while utility costs have decreased, the trend is upward, and wages increased by 7.4%. 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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE HISCOX FOUNDATION	1	£10k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with REDEEMER CHURCH CHESTER LE STREET.

REDEEMER CHURCH CHESTER LE STREET income £186k
CHESTER ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH income £260k
COLCHESTER UNITED COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £1.4m
WHITELEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £103k
THE STREETLY ASSOCIATION income £403k
CLEETHORPES COMMUNITY SPORTS AND EDUCATION income £3.0m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
CHESTER-LE-STREET COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION	£110k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
REDEEMER CHURCH CHESTER LE STREET FY2025	£186k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
CHESTER ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH FY2025	£260k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
COLCHESTER UNITED COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FY2025	£1.4m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
WHITELEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION FY2025	£103k	—	0	unclear	—	noted
THE STREETLY ASSOCIATION FY2025	£403k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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