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Registered charity · South Shields

KEY Community

KEY Community is a registered charity (number 1108921) based in South Shields, governed by 6 trustees. Latest income £1.8m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £1.8m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing and 1 more
Where
South Tyneside
Website
keycommunity.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
KEY Community
Registered
2005

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.8m£1.7m
  • 2024£1.7m£1.6m
  • 2023£1.6m£1.4m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.5m£1.1m
  • 2021£1.4m£1.0m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 9% · Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT,1. THE PROVISION OF RELIEF FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES WHO ARE, HAVE BEEN, OR ARE AT RISK OF BEING HOMELESS INCLUDING (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE PROVISION OF OTHER FORMS OF RELIEF) THE PROVISION OF SUPPORTED ACCOMODATION, FAMILY RELATIONSHIP BREAKDOWN INTERVENTION AND MEDIATION, ADVICE AND COUNSELLING.2. THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONGST PEOPLE IN SOUTH TYNESIDE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME-TO-TIME THINK FIT, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:A) PROVIDING EMERGENCY FOOD, ESSENTIAL TOILETRIES, AND HOUSEHOLD ITEMS TO INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES IN NEED AND/OR FOR DISTRIBUTION BY CHARITIES OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTYB) SUCH OTHER MEANS, INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT OR SIGNPOSTING TO RELEVANT INFORMATION AND OTHER ADVISORY SERVICES.

Grants received

63 grants · £1,699,555 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

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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.

6 trustees on the board

5.5y median 3y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

6
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 6General Charitable Purposes 6The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 6

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 6

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£1.8m 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.

11.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

30 from 22 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.
11%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1108921
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 2 FEBRUARY 2004 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 1 MARCH 2005 as amended on 24 Jun 2022 as amended on 26 Jul 2023
Companies House
Company number 05031398 · Active
Contact on the register
01914969710 · hello@keycommunity.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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