RYTON COMMUNITY CENTRE

Registered charity 520879 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RYTON AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY CENTRES ASSOCIATION, RYTON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

Community centre providing opportunities for local residents/general public to meet, book rooms for activities or join one of the many sections and user groups. Presently these include camera club, nursery, karate club, yoga group, pilates group, mother & toddler sessions and a youth drama group.

Objects

A COMMUNITY CENTRE

Area of benefit: RYTON 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 · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £10,120.07 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total expenditures of £65,253.60 against total incomes of £33,116.87 plus brought forward reserves. The trustees note that reserves were depleted due to major refurbishment projects but are rebuilding from regular facility hires, and they maintain a level of reserves adequate to cover perceived repair costs and ensure survival in case of enforced closure.

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 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• 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
• 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Erin McClymont
• Lucy Kerr
• Winifred Ann Sedgwick

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

Operates in: Gateshead

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRAYTON COMMUNITY CENTRE.

• BRAYTON COMMUNITY CENTRE income £104k
• MARTON COMMUNITY CENTRE GROUP income £34k
• RYEDALE COMMUNITY AND LEISURE CENTRE income £72k
• CRAMLINGTON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £26k
• RAINHAM AND WENNINGTON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £49k
• ST MARYS SOCIAL CENTRE income £33k

Side by side with its peers

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