Registered charity · Newcastle upon Tyne
NEW Writing North
- 14 trustees
- Income £1.8m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Helen Louise DalbyChair · since 2024
- Caroline Greenwood DowerTrustee · since 2023
- Clare CalderTrustee · since 2020
- Degna Michelle Aston StoneTrustee · since 2018
- Dr Chun Kit FanTrustee · since 2025
- Gary Robert WrightTrustee · since 2023
- Hector Miquel Vidal DuraTrustee · since 2023
- Livia BirdTrustee · since 2024
- Maria AntoniouTrustee · since 2024
- Matthew ForsterTrustee · since 2023
- Sara LloydTrustee · since 2020
- Sinead RocksTrustee · since 2026
- Ted HodgkinsonTrustee · since 2024
- Tessy Eghosa IdemudiaTrustee · since 2025
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Throughout England
- Website
- www.newwritingnorth.com (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- NEW Writing North
- Registered
- 1997
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1.8m£1.8m
- 2024£1.5m£1.7m
- 2023£1.5m£1.5m
Earlier years
- 2022£1.3m£1.2m
- 2021£903k£814k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 20%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO FOSTER AWARENESS, KNOWLEDGE UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF CONTEMPORARY WRITING FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC
Grants received
42 grants · £2,189,330 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
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £676,468 (2 grants)
- Northern Rock Foundation · £455,700 (3 grants)
- Paul Hamlyn Foundation · £416,600 (3 grants)
- Community Foundation North East · £260,900 (22 grants)
- Youth Music · £132,792 (2 grants)
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.
14 trustees on the board
- Helen Louise Dalby Chair since 2024
- Caroline Greenwood Dower since 2023
- Clare Calder since 2020
- Degna Michelle Aston Stone since 2018
- Dr Chun Kit Fan since 2025
- Gary Robert Wright since 2023
- Hector Miquel Vidal Dura since 2023
- Livia Bird since 2024
- Maria Antoniou since 2024
- Matthew Forster since 2023
- Sara Lloyd since 2020
- Sinead Rocks since 2026
- Ted Hodgkinson since 2024
- Tessy Eghosa Idemudia since 2025
Trustees past 6 years
- Clare Calder since 2020
- Degna Michelle Aston Stone since 2018
- Sara Lloyd since 2020
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (13)
- Helen Louise Dalby Chair since 2024
- Caroline Greenwood Dower since 2023
- Clare Calder since 2020
- Dr Chun Kit Fan since 2025
- Gary Robert Wright since 2023
- Hector Miquel Vidal Dura since 2023
- Livia Bird since 2024
- Maria Antoniou since 2024
- Matthew Forster since 2023
- Sara Lloyd since 2020
- Sinead Rocks since 2026
- Ted Hodgkinson since 2024
- Tessy Eghosa Idemudia since 2025
Portfolio (1)
- Degna Michelle Aston Stone 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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
0.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 3.6 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1062729
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 29 FEBRUARY 1996 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS 23 APRIL 1997 AND19 SEPTEMBER 2002 as amended on 07 Dec 2023
- Companies House
- Company number 03166037 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01912048850 · office@newwritingnorth.com
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 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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