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Registered charity · Gateshead

Baltic Flour Mills Visual Arts Trust

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £6.8m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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
Gateshead
Website
www.balticmill.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Baltic Flour Mills Visual Arts Trust
Registered
1999

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£6.8m£6.3m
  • 2024£6.3m£6.2m
  • 2023£6.0m£5.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£4.8m£4.7m
  • 2021£4.6m£4.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 47%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ARTS AND THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS IN GENERAL;THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE BALTIC FLOUR MILLS BUILDINGS IN GATESHEAD AS A BASE FOR THE PRODUCTION AND PRESENTATION OF CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ARTS AND THE ARTS IN GENERAL AND AS A FULLY ACCESSIBLE CENTRE IN WHICH THE PUBLIC MAY EXPLORE, UNDERSTAND AND ENJOY THEM.

Grants received

15 grants · £7,037,988 total

360Giving 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

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.

12 trustees on the board

4.4y median 4y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (1)

11
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 12Education/training 12Disability 1

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

Arts and leisure 19Other services 5Property 4

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£6.8m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

8.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 8.9 in 2021

89 from 80 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
1076251
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 29/06/1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/05/1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/07/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12 AUG 2016
Companies House
Company number 03589539 · Active
Contact on the register
01914781810 · info@balticmill.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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