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Registered charity · Manchester

Northern Consortium

Northern Consortium is a registered charity (number 1018979) based in Manchester, governed by 14 trustees and chaired by Professor Helen Claire Hamshire since 2026. Latest income £8.8m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

The advancement of education in particular but not limited to: 1. Administering or procuring, directly or indirectly, education projects and training programmes;2. Running, funding or supporting collaborative teaching projects with both UK and...

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £8.8m (2025)
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About

What it does
Education/training, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.nccharity.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Northern Consortium
Registered
1993

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£8.8m£8.9m
  • 2024£7.6m£7.7m
  • 2023£6.6m£6.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£5.9m£5.5m
  • 2021£5.0m£4.7m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

The advancement of education in particular but not limited to: 1. Administering or procuring, directly or indirectly, education projects and training programmes;2. Running, funding or supporting collaborative teaching projects with both UK and overseas educational institutions or other organisations attended by students from the UK or overseas, making further or higher education more accessible for students from different backgrounds and geographical locations;3. Providing bursaries, scholarships, counselling, placements, training opportunities or other support to UK or overseas students who are either disadvantaged (financially or otherwise) or from under-represented groups.

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.

2.4y median 1y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

Portfolio (2)

11
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 14Other Charitable Purposes 14Arts/culture/heritage/science 2

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

Education 15Arts and leisure 2Other services 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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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£8.8m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

4.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 8.1 in 2021

1 from 1 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1018979
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 09/02/1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/01/2005NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 14/02/2013 as amended on 07 Sep 2017 as amended on 04 Apr 2019 as amended on 19 Oct 2020 as amended on 17 Nov 2020 as amended on 15 Sep 2021 as amended on 25 Sept 2025 as amended on 25 Sept 2025
Companies House
Company number 02788226 · Active
Contact on the register
07309926751 · info@nccharity.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
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