Registered charity · Newcastle upon Tyne
The Margaret Dobson Further Education Trust
Also known as Dobson Trust (Charity Commission)
- 8 trustees
- Income £22k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Disability
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
- Website
- www.margaretdobsontrust.org (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1990
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£22k£30k
- 2024£33k£30k
- 2023£29k£39k
Earlier years
- 2022£29k£20k
- 2021£26k£33k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
TO PROVIDE GRANTS AND DONATIONS TO OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS OR CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE ADVANCEMENT AND PROMOTION OF EDUCATION, LEARNING, TRAINING, RECREATION AND REHABILITATION OF, AMONG AND FOR PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS
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.
8 trustees on the board
- Robert Jonathan Pereira Gray Mr Chair
- Catherine Gray since 2022
- Helen Louise Reid since 2023
- Ian Richard Gerald Williams since 2022
- Mathew Mortimer Gilbert since 2025
- Saskya Huggins
- Sharon Jane Sophia Shortland
- Simon Edward Collins since 2018
Trustees past 6 years
- Simon Edward Collins since 2018
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Robert Jonathan Pereira Gray Mr Chair
- Catherine Gray since 2022
- Helen Louise Reid since 2023
- Ian Richard Gerald Williams since 2022
- Mathew Mortimer Gilbert since 2025
- Saskya Huggins
- Sharon Jane Sophia Shortland
- Simon Edward Collins since 2018
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
- Narrow spread of causes across the board
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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1000585
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- TRUST DEED DATED 1ST OCTOBER 1990 as amended on 03 Jun 2021
- Contact on the register
- 07958 366721 · secretarymdt@gmail.com
- 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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