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Northern College of Acupuncture

Registered charity 1081184 Registered since 2000

Operates: City Of York

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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.

11 trustees on the board

3.2y median 1y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

10
company-linked trustees

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

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 11Education/training 10Economic/community Development/employment 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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.

Education 13Construction 7Other 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£1.2m 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.

0.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 3.7 in 2021

29 from 27 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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

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Contact

Websitewww.nca.ac.uk
Emailinfo@nca.ac.uk
Phone01904343305
AddressNORTHERN COLLEGE OF ACUPUNCTURE, 61 MICKLEGATE, YORK, YO1 6LJ

Finances

£1,164,692 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£1,126,224£1,120,379
2022£1,099,758£1,155,149
2023£1,049,358£1,039,327
2024£1,099,978£1,212,369
2025£1,164,692£1,331,045

What it does

What

Education/trainingThe Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

Who

The General Public/mankind

How

Provides Services

Charitable objects

A) TO PROVIDE EDUCATION AND PROMOTE HIGH STANDARDS OF PRACTICE IN THE SCIENCE AND ART OF ACUPUNCTURE AND TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE FOR THE PROTECTION AND BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, TO BE AVAILABLE TO ANY SUITABLY QUALIFIED PERSON REGARDLESS OF COLOUR, CLASS, RACE, RELIGION, GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR DISABILITY PROVIDED SUCH DISABILITY IS COMPATIBLE WITH THE PROVISION OF SAFE AND EFFECTIVE TREATMENT; B) TO PROVIDE FOR, PROMOTE AND ENGAGE IN INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH INTO THE SCIENCE AND ART OF ACUPUNCTURE AND TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE AND TO DISSEMINATE THE RESULTS OF RESEARCH; C) TO ENCOURAGE THE PROGRESS OF AND TO IMPROVE STANDARDS OF EDUCATION AND PRACTICE IN ACUPUNCTURE AND TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE BY PROVIDING POST-GRADUATE EDUCATION FOR PRACTITIONERS; D) TO PROVIDE EDUCATION IN AND TREATMENT WITH ACUPUNCTURE AND TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE AT PREFERENTIAL CHARGES FOR MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WOULD OTHERWISE BE DEPRIVED OF EDUCATION AND/OR TREATMENT BY REASON OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED JULY 3 1989

Trustees (11)

11trustees
68median age
4aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Northern College of Acupuncture · 02400056 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 03/07/1989

1 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (1)

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