## **-Headway Wearside**
**(a company limited by guarantee)**
# **Company Registration no 07504702 Charity Registration no 1140910**
**Financial Statements For the period ended 31 January 2026**
Headway Wearside Washington Millennium Centre The Oval Washington NE37 2QD
**Headway Wearside** (a company limited by guarantee)
## **Legal and Administrative Information**
**Name:** Headway Wearside **Company No:** 07504702 **Charity No:** 1140910
## **Directors/Trustees:**
Paul M Brown – Chair Person Ian Brown – Treasurer Anne Eagan - Secretary
Andrew Patterson – JSP Business Director John Pope – North Star Rehab, Clinical Director Anthony Lambelle – Brain Injury Survivor James Dowell – Brain Injury Survivor Derek Nicholson – Brain Injury survivor Gloria Finnigan – Carer
**Registered Address: Washington Millennium Centre** The Oval Concord Washington Tyne and Wear NE37 2QB **Bankers:** Lloyds TSB Grey Street Branch PO Box 1000 BX1 1XT **Structure:** Headway Wearside is a Company limited by guarantee registered on 25[th] January 2011 and a registered Charity from 29[th] March 2011.
**Independent Examiner:** R J Whitelaw CA 12 West Meadows Road Sunderland SR6 7TX
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## **Contents**
|1.|Director’s/Trustees Report|Pages 4-7|
|---|---|---|
|2.|Independent Examiner’s Report|Page 7|
|3.|Statement of Financial Activities|Page 8|
|4.|Balance Sheet|Page 8|
|5.|Notes to the Accounts|Pages 9-11|
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Director’s/Trustees Report 2025/6
## **Objectives and Activities**
Headway Wearside is established to promote understanding of all aspects of Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) and to provide information, support and services to survivors of brain injury, their families and carers.
As an organisation Headway Wearside strives:
- To increase awareness of brain injury and its consequences
- To initiate activities and campaigns which will reduce the incidence of brain injury
- To provide information and support for people with acquired brain injuries, their relatives and carers and concerned professional people
- To promote improved approaches to brain injury screening, acute care, assessment, rehabilitation and social re-integration
- To assist people with acquired brain injuries to return to community living, including access to appropriate accommodation, social outlets, and productive activity
## **Achievements and performance**
Headway Wearside is run by Volunteer Trustees, this enables the board to be service user led. We hold bi-monthly management meetings to ensure legal and charitable responsibilities are met. We are affiliated to Headway UK and sign up to their policies, procedures and practice, working together to ensure equal opportunities and fairness, reviewing the project and financial management.
The service has continued to be delivered via our Family Support Officers and Business Manager across three sites including Monkwearmouth Hopspital, Walkergate Park Hospital and Washington Millennium Centre.
As a Team we deliver services in Sunderland and surrounding areas with the family support Team also covering areas such as South Tyneside, Gateshead, Newcastle, Durham and further afield if required from referrals from specialist neuro rehab centres and partners .
We work closely with other Headway Groups and Branches across the North East and attend regular regional meetings with shared interests and outcomes.
The service has two main work strand, family support and community with each stream having several work steams such as education, wellbeing and exercise, social integration ,
The service has two main work strands, family support and community with each strand having several work steams such as education, wellbeing and exercise, social integration , welfare, carers support
Family Support [CABIS staff] – To include Carer Support and Benefits Advice and welfare These dedicated non clinical roles are delivered within the Community Acquired Brain Injury Service, which is an NHS Neuro rehabilitation service.
**Increase in Service Delivery There has been a 50% increase in the number of families/survivors that have been supported by our Cabis Staff, this includes 208 new referrals/families made up of 108 from Sunderland, 49 from Gateshead and 51 from South Tyneside**
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Support has included regular face to face sessions offering emotional support and psychological and brain injury education as well as practical support to access welfare rights, social services support and other services to improve the wellbeing of carers and their loved ones.
Walkergate Park Update – Julie King February end of April 2025- whilst this post was seen as a valuable need within the Walkrgate park team it became unsustainable and unfortunately had to close end of April 2025 due to lack of funds. This post was initially funded by CNTW for 1 year, it continued to be funded for a further 2 years in which time Julie King supported families, many of whom were at the beginning of their journey as carers or as brain injury survivors.
A partnership with Headway Tyneside to support their Tuesday Evening Group with a Carers Space means that we can continue to provide monthly support to carers within Walkergate.
## Community Activity and Support Services
The timetable of activities were put on a skeletal timetable for 4 weeks during the summer of 2025 due to staff illness. Support services continued throughout this time.
We held 332 hours of activity time with funding secured from a variety of grants and partnership programmes such as the connect to concord project that was accessed 1002 times throughout the year. This included music therapy, Massage, Carers Support Group , and a twice a month social group. Monthly socials were also held at Mickeys Place [Community Café/foodbank/ for brunch each month, with Christmas afternoon tea and Christingle Service
in addition to activity time we have supported individuals and families via face to face meetings, drop in sessions with welfare, emergency and crises support being high on our list of priorities this year .
Alongside the monthly carers group we have provided an informal listening ear service for Carers this has often been outside of the normal 9-5 as this is when they most need the additional support
**Stroke Group** – Early in the year we networked with the Stroke Association who had members of their group that had received first line intervention services from them and were now at a loss as to where these survivors could continue to meet to support each other. We stepped up to provide a monthly peer support social support group members of that initial group have now integrated into our full service and take part in our range of activities.
**Mickeys Place** - The Brunch Club at the community Café in Washington. A brunch/breakfast is cooked and served by volunteers. Members of the stroke group and our regulars attend this session where they have the opportunity to meet new people in their community .
## **Cultural Spring**
An Arts programme was secured following an application process to co -produce a scheme of work with an artist that was to be chosen by Headway Wearside members. local artist. Headway formed a planning group that lead to the hire of Hannah to work on the five week project. The group were fully involved including the selection and hiring of Hannah and the
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work scheme within Phaze 1. August – December 2025. Phaze 2 of the project will go ahead in 2026.
## **Calvert Trust Kielder – Look ahead in the North**
A residential weekend with other Headway groups and branches from the North East.
Members took part in a range of activities that enabled them to learn new skills, relax in a comfortable environment, make new friends. Members choose their own activities including, boat trips, zip slides, archery, laser clay pigeon shooting, murder mystery night, quiz night, arts and craft room, relaxation therapies, talent show competition,
Student support – Headway Wearside believe in giving something back to the community, and to encourage the next generation of adults to have a greater and understanding and knowledge of acquired brain injury and the impact it can have on individuals and families. Because of this we work closely with schools and colleges in the are to provide work experience placements and student placements . We also attend university business events to give talks and information.
Our students have attended a range of courses including Student GPs, Student Psychologists, Work experience students. We have :
- Continued to deliver telephone and face to face support for members as required.
- Provided food vouchers for those in need who could not access local foodbanks.
- Provided everyone access cards for gym/swim exercise sessions.
## **Financial Review**
Headway Wearside secured some additional funding towards the salary of our existing Community Development Worker, Kim Hunter, for 2025/2026, despite the extreme challenges charities now face in securing grant/government funding.
Kim’s aim was to continue to build the membership, increase volunteer opportunities, continue to develop activities and support the Committee in securing additional funding. Kim has again worked tirelessly to achieve this and, as a result, she has secured funding to continue in her role for a further 18 months until 2027. We continue to keep building up our unrestricted funds through fundraising opportunities to carry on delivering this invaluable service to the head injury community of Sunderland.
## **Funders**
Headway Wearside would like to thank everyone who has supported the charity financially during 2025/26 and contributed towards our general core costs including running costs, community development services, activities and resources. Kim also managed to successfully secure funding via CNTW CABIS to continue the positions of our three workers for 2025/26.
Funding has also been received from a number of sources for specific activities and projects for service users and their families and these are as follows:
- CABIS (funder CNTW)
- Sir James Knott Trust
- Connecting to Concord – Big Lottery
- Saturday Club
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**Headway Wearside** (a company limited by guarantee)
## **Risk Management**
The Directors have examined the major risks, which the company faces in relation to external factors, governance and management, internal operations and business. An Assessing Risk Contingency Planning document has been developed and is included in their Business Plan. They have considered the likelihood and the impact of risks and have reviewed what systems should be in place to control and reduce those risks. The systems are being designed to provide reasonable, but not absolute, assurance against material loss or misstatement of loss.
## **Reserves Policy**
It is the policy of the company to try to build up unrestricted funds, which are free reserves of the company, to a level that equates to approximately 3 months unrestricted expenditure. This will provide sufficient funds to cover management and administration support costs and any emergencies that may arise from time to time.
The Directors/Trustees are responsible for keeping accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy the financial position of the charity and which enable them to ascertain the financial position of the company and which enable them to comply with applicable law. The Directors/Trustees are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
## **Plans for the Future**
Headway Wearside shall continue to relieve persons who are resident in Wearside who have suffered a brain injury, their families, carers and other related professionals by the provision of information, service and facilities and advance the education of the public in all aspects relating to brain injury and its prevention.
The Directors/Trustees have considered the guidance produced by the Charity Commission on the provision of public benefit and they confirm that public benefit has been provided by the range of activities as described above.
## **Directors’/Trustees’ Responsibilities:**
For the year ending 31[st] January 2026 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.
The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its accounts for the year in question in accordance with section 476.
The directors/trustees acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts
These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies’ regime. **Approved by the members and signed on their behalf:**
_Name:…_ Ian Brown _… …Signature:……_
_Name:……………………………………Signature:……_
_Date_
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## **Independent Examiners Report**
Report to the trustees/members of Headway Wearside on Accounts for the year ended 31[st] January 2026.
## **Respective responsibilities of the Trustees and Examiner**
The charity’s trustees (who are also the directors of the company for the purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act), and that an Independent Examination is needed.
Having satisfied myself that the charity is not subject to audit under company law and is eligible for independent examination, it is my responsibility to:
- examine the accounts under section 145 of the 2011 Act;
- to follow the procedures laid down in the General Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act), and
- to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
## **Basis of Independent Examiner’s Report**
My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a ‘true and fair view’ and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.
## **Independent Examiner’s Statement**
In connection with my examination no matter has come to my attention:
- (1) which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements:
- to keep accounting records in accordance with section 386 of the Companies Act 2006; and
- to prepare accounts which agree with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of section 396 of the Companies Act 2006 and the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities; or
- (2) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Name R J Whitelaw C A
- Signed Robert Whitelaw
- Date 11 April 2026
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|||||2025-2026|2025-2026||**2024-2025**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Note|**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|**Total**|**Total**|
|**Incoming Resources**||||||||
|Incoming resources from||||||||
|generated funds||||||||
|Voluntary income||||0|0|0|0|
|Activities for generating|funds||4|11,998|89,988|101,98
6|97,838|
|Investment income|||3|0|0|0|0|
|Incoming resources from||||||||
|charitable activities||||0|0|0|0|
|**Total incoming resources**||||**11,998**|**89,988**|**101,98**
**6**|**97,838**|
|**Resources Expended**||||||||
|Cost of generating funds||||0|0|0|0|
|Cost of generating voluntary||||||||
|income||||0|0|0|0|
|Fundraising Trading Costs||||0|0|0|0|
|Investment Management||||||||
|Costs||||0|0|0|0|
|Charitable activities|||4|9,980|100,328|110,30
8|110,713|
|Governance Costs||||0|0|0|0|
|**Total resources expended**||||**9,980**|**100,328**|**110,30**
**8**|**1107,13**|
|Net incoming/outgoing|||||(10,340|||
|resources||||2,018|)|(8,322)|(12,876)|
|Total funds brought forward||||35,925|51,560|87,485|100,361|
|**Total funds carried forward**||||**37,943**|**41,220**|**79,163**|**87,485**|
||**Statement of Financial Activities 2025-26**|||||||
|||**Balance**|**sheet**|**as at 31st January 2026**||||
|||||2025-2026|||2024-2025|
||||Not|||||
||||e|Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
|**Fixed Assets**||||||||
|Debtors||||0|0|0|0|
|Cash at bank and in hand||||37,943|41,220|79,163|87,485|
|**Total Current Assets**||||**37,943**|**41,220**|**79,163**|**87,485**|
|Creditors falling due within one year||||0|0|0|0|
|Net Current Assets||||**37,943**|**41,220**|**79,163**|**87,485**|
|**Funds of the charity**||||||||
|||||37,94||||
|Unrestricted funds||||3||37,943|35,925|
|Restricted income funds|||||41,220|41,220|51,560|
|**Total Funds**||||**37,943**|**41,220**|**79,163**|**87,485**|
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For the year ending 31 January 2026 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the companies act 2006 relating to small companies.
The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its accounts for the year in question in accordance with section 476.
The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.
These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime. **Approved by the members and signed on their behalf**
**Name** Ian Brown **Signature**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements For the year ended 31 January 2026**
1 Accounting Policies **Basis of Preparation** These Financial Statements have been prepared on the basis of historic cost in accordance with:
- Part 2 of the Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Act 2004 (c.27);
- The Financial Reporting Standard for Small Entities (effective from January 2007) of the Companies Act 2006;
- Accounting and Reporting by Charities – Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP 2005);
- Accounting Standards; and with the Charities Act 2011
The Directors/Trustees have taken advantage of the exemption in financial reporting standard no 1 (revised) from including a cash flow statement in the financial statements on the grounds that the company is small.
## **Incoming Resources**
These are included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA) when:
- the charity becomes entitled to the resources;
- the trustees are virtually certain they will receive the resources; and
- the monetary value can be measured with sufficient reliability
Donations are only included in the SOFA when the charity has unconditional entitlement to the resources.
## **Resources Expended and Liabilities**
Resources expended have been analysed using a natural classification.
Liabilities are recognised as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to pay out resources
Governance costs include the cost of trustee travel expenses and telephone calls and any costs relating to the governance of the charity.
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Support costs include central functions and have been allocated to activity cost categories on a basis consistent with the use of resources.
## **2 Funds**
The Charity has 2 funds, an unrestricted general fund and a restricted fund used for purchasing items of a specific nature funded by one funder: hence all movements on each fund are disclosed.
There are no designated funds at this time.
|fund are disclosed.
There are no designated funds at this time.|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Restricted Funds**|**Bal. BF**|**Income**|**Expenditure**|**Balance**|
|CABIS Staff 23-24|3,995|0|2,338|1,657|
|Cabis CNTW Underspend|15,089|0|2,557|12,532|
|ICB 23-24|929|0|929|0|
|CABIS Staff 24-25|11,704|0|11,704|0|
|CABIS Staff 25-26|0|64,771|50,325|14,446|
|NABIF|2,774|0|2,774|0|
|Sir James Knott Trust|0|5,000|959|4,041|
|NHSCCG 2022-2025|17,069|0|11,264|5,805|
|Connecting to Concord|0|19,541|16,802|2,739|
|Saturday Club (Julie / Client)|0|676|676|0|
||||||
||||||
||||||
|**Total Restricted Fund**|**51,560**|**89,988**|**100,328**|**41,220**|
||||||
|**Unrestricted fund**|**35,925**|**11,998**|**9,980**|**37,943**|
## **3 Investment Income**
There is no investment income at this time
|**4 Income & Expenditure 2025-26**|**4 Income & Expenditure 2025-26**|**4 Income & Expenditure 2025-26**|**2025-26**
**Total**|**2024-25**
**Total**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Income**|**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|||
|CABIS CNTW Underspend||0|0|0|
|CABIS Staff 23-24||0|0|0|
|ICB 23-24||0|0|0|
|CABIS Staff 25-26||64,771|64,771|0|
|CABIS Staff 24-25||0|0|65,996|
|NABIF||0|0|7,500|
|CABIS WPG 23-24||0|0|0|
|Barbour Foundation||0|0|5,000|
|NHSCCG 2022-2025||0|0|0|
|Co-op||0|0|1,668|
|Sir James Knott Trust||5,000|5,000|5,000|
|Connecting to Concord||19,541|19,541|0|
|Saturday Clun (Julie / Client)||676|676|0|
|Donations General|11,998|0|11,998|12,674|
|**Total Income**|**11,998**|**89,988**|**101,986**|**97,838**|
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|**Expenditure**|**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|**2025-26**|**2024-25**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|Sir James Knott Trust||959|959|5,000|
|CABIS Staff 23-24||2,338|2,338|13,405|
|Cabis CNTW Underspend||2,557|2,557|2,966|
|ICB 23-24||929|929|9,071|
|St James Place||0|0|2,500|
|CABIS WPG 23-24||0|0|4,428|
|CABIS Staff 24-25||11,704|11,704|50,854|
|CABIS Staff 25-26||50,325|50,325|0|
|Saturday Club (Julie / Client)||676|676|0|
|NAFIB||2,774|2,774|4,726|
|NHSCCG 2022-2025||11,264|11,264|2,752|
|Barbour Foundation||0|0|4,998|
|Connecting to Concord||16,802|16,802|0|
|Delaware foundation Trust||0|0|30|
|Co-op||0|0|1,668|
||||||
|Unrestricted Fund|9,980||9,980|8,315|
||||||
||||||
|**Total Expenditure**|**9,980**|**100,328**|**110,308**|**110,713**|
||||||
|**Income Less Expenditure**|2,018|-10,340|-8,322|-12,876|
||||||
|**Balance Brought Forward**|35,925|51,560|87,485|100,361|
||||||
|**Balance Carried forward**|**37,943**|**41,220**|**79,163**|**87,485**|
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## **5 Debtors**
There are no debtors
## **6 Creditors: due within 1 year**
Independent Examination fee of £0.00
## **Approved by the members and signed on their behalf:**
Name ……Ian Brown ……………… Signature … ……………….
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Headway Wearside
{a company limited by guarantee)
Company No.. 07504702
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