COMMUNITY VENTURES (MIDDLESBROUGH) LTD

Registered charity 702916 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CVL, EAST MIDDLESBROUGH COMMUNITY VENTURE

Education & Training, Relief of Poverty, Economic/community/development/employment

Objects

TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM WITH PARTICULAR REGARD TO SUCH PERSONS WHO ARE UNEMPLOYED OR ARE SUFFERING THE CONSEQUENCES OF UNEMPLOYMENT THROUGH THE PROVISION OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND THROUGH SUCH CHARITABLE MEANS AS MAY BE DEEMED APPROPRIATE. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE SEE CLAUSE 3 OF THE CHARITY'S GOVERNING DOCUMENT.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £46,003, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of six months' operating costs. The charity reported a net income surplus of £44,378 for the year, though it remains dependent on the timely repayment of significant debts owed by a related party, CVL Housing CIC.

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 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
• 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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 07/03/2024, 36 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 06/02/2023, 6 days after the 31/01/2023 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 02456427 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• TAYLOR, Richinda Mary — director, appointed 02/10/2024on trustee list
• HAMEED, Saliah Parveen — director, appointed 01/11/2022on trustee list
• RUTHERFORD, Keith — director, appointed 01/11/2022on trustee list
• SMITH, Patricia Elizabeth — director, appointed 01/11/2022on 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 (6 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (55% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Keith Rutherford
• Patricia Elizabeth Smith
• Richinda Mary Taylor
• Saliah Hameed

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COMMUNITIES WELFARE NETWORK.

• COMMUNITIES WELFARE NETWORK income £58k
• COMMUNITY PEOPLE MID SUSSEX income £446k
• COMMUNITY DISCOVERY AND RECOVERY SERVICES income £1.3m
• NHANCED COMMUNITIES income £182k
• VENTURE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £755k
• TOGETHER MIDDLESBROUGH AND CLEVELAND income £90k

Side by side with its peers

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