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East Durham Community Development Trust LTD

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £1.7m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage and 2 more
Where
Durham
Website
www.eastdurhamtrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
East Durham Community Development Trust Limited
Registered
2007

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.7m£1.5m
  • 2024£1.3m£1.3m
  • 2023£1.3m£809k
Earlier years
  • 2022£750k£681k
  • 2021£650k£595k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 38%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

3.1 THE PROMOTION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF URBAN OR RURAL REGENERATION IN AREAS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION IN THE EAST DURHAM AND SURROUNDING AREA BY MEANS OF ANY OR ALL OF THE FOLLOWING:A. THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTYB. TRAINING OR RETRAINING PARTICULARLY AMONG UNEMPLOYED PEOPLEC. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION D. THE ADVANCEMENT, PROTECTION AND PROMOTION OF HEALTH E. THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE, OR THOSE WHO BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE THE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIESF. TO FURTHER PEOPLE'S LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN ORDER TO IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE3.2 TO ESTABLISH A BUILDING AS A COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE3.3 BY SUCH OTHER MEANS AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED SUBJECT TO THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE CHARITY COMMISSIONERS FOR ENGLAND AND WALES.

Grants received

44 grants · £2,105,186 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Point North · £967,562 (20 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £762,144 (10 grants)
  • Comic Relief · £154,225 (3 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £72,000 (3 grants)
  • Power to Change Trust · £71,148

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £80,0002025-11-21
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £18,8342024-10-24
  • Point North £5002024-10-16
  • Point North £195,0002024-05-14
  • Point North £113,9652023-07-11
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

5 trustees on the board

6y median 4.5y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

15.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (2)

5
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 5The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 4Arts/culture/heritage/science 3General Charitable Purposes 1Recreation 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Other services 5Education 2Health and social care 2

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.7m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

1.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

20 from 11 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
136 days
Latest accounts filed after the due dateiFiled after the due dateDate the accounts were received minus the reporting due date, latest filed cycle, Charity Commission register.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1117642
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 13/12/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29/03/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/07/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/12/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/03/2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/11/2012
Companies House
Company number 05934124 · Active
Contact on the register
01915693511 · info@eastdurhamtrust.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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