Registered charity · Peterlee
Easington Social Welfare Centre
- 11 trustees
- Income £58k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Lynn DoddsChair · since 2023
- Daniel DickinsonTrustee · since 2025
- David Stephen GarsideTrustee · since 2022
- Donald DobellTrustee · since 2022
- Gemma RobinsonTrustee · since 2025
- Nathan DickinsonTrustee · since 2025
- Stephen FergusTrustee · since 2022
- Stephen William FergusTrustee · since 2023
- William SmithTrustee · since 2024
Also 2 organisations acting as trustee: John Dodds, Paula Elliott.
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability and 8 more
- Where
- Durham
- Website
- www.thewelly.biz (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1972
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£58k£58k
- 2024£58k£48k
- 2023£26k£91k
Earlier years
- 2022£192k£131k
- 2021£87k£72k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 16% · Government grants 16%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
THE PROVISION OF A SOCIAL WELFARE CENTRE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS (AND IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, SUCH OF THE SAID INHABITANTS AS ARE MEMBERS OF THE MINING COMMUNITY) OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS
Grants received
17 grants · £358,767 total360Giving 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
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £239,567 (4 grants)
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £82,000
- The Ballinger Charitable Trust · £17,500 (3 grants)
- Point North · £17,500 (8 grants)
- The Coalfields Regeneration Trust · £2,200
Most recent
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.
9 trustees on the board
- Lynn Dodds Chair since 2023
- Daniel Dickinson since 2025
- David Stephen Garside since 2022
- Gemma Robinson since 2025
- John Dodds since 2025
- Nathan Dickinson since 2025
- Stephen Fergus since 2022
- Stephen William Fergus since 2023
- Donald Dobell since 2022
- Paula Elliott since 2025
- William Smith since 2024
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (9)
- Lynn Dodds Chair since 2023
- Daniel Dickinson since 2025
- David Stephen Garside since 2022
- Gemma Robinson since 2025
- Nathan Dickinson since 2025
- Stephen Fergus since 2022
- Stephen William Fergus since 2023
- Donald Dobell since 2022
- William Smith since 2024
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Gaps to watch
- Mostly recent joiners - limited long-term continuity
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 520774
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- SCHEME DATED 30/07/2004AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 01/03/2013
- Contact on the register
- 01915270635 · admin@eswc.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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