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Registered charity · Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle Rugby Foundation

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £706k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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, Amateur Sport, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Gateshead, Newcastle Upon Tyne City, North Tyneside, South Tyneside and more
Website
www.newcastle-falcons.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Newcastle Rugby Foundation
Registered
2005

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£706k£783k
  • 2024£626k£664k
  • 2023£603k£638k
Earlier years
  • 2022£640k£675k
  • 2021£463k£385k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 3%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY AND, IN PARTICULAR, THE INHABITANTS OF TYNE AND WEAR, NORTHUMBERLAND, COUNTY DURHAM AND CUMBRIA AND THEIR SURROUNDING AREAS:-3. THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ("THE OBJECTS") ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY AND, INPARTICULAR, THE INHABITANTS OF THE NORTH EAST AND CUMBRIA AND THEIR SURROUNDINGAREAS:-3.1. TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION BY PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR THEPLAYING OF RUGBY UNION, RUGBY LEAGUE AND OTHER SPORTS ("FACILITIES" IN THIS CLAUSE 3MEANS LAND, BUILDINGS, EQUIPMENT AND ORGANISING SPORTING ACTIVITIES);3.2. TO PROVIDE AND ASSIST IN PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR SPORT, RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIMEOCCUPATION OF SUCH PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED FOR SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIRYOUTH, AGE, ETHNICITY, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMICCIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THEOBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE; AND3.3. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH SUCH MEANS AS THETRUSTEES THINK FIT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF CHARITY.

Grants received

8 grants · £344,497 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.

9 trustees on the board

7.9y median 8.5y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (2)

9
company-linked trustees

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

Amateur Sport 9Disability 9Education/training 8Economic/community Development/employment 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 14Health and social care 2Professional services 2

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£706k 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.

3.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 7.2 in 2021

19 from 19 in 2022
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
1107851
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 27 OCT 2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02 DEC 2008AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 26 JAN 2017AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 07 NOV 2017 as amended on 09 Oct 2025
Companies House
Company number 05271148 · Active
Contact on the register
01912142810 · melanie.magee@newcastle-falcons.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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