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Registered charity · County Durham

Real Care LTD

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £1.8m (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, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, Arts/culture/heritage/science and 3 more
Where
Durham, Darlington, Gateshead, Newcastle Upon Tyne City
Website
www.learninglife.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Real Care LTD
Registered
2006

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.8m£1.6m
  • 2024£1.4m£1.3m
  • 2023£1.3m£1.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£689k£617k
  • 2021£999k£788k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 64% · Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE AND SUPPORT THE POST 16 EDUCATION OF PUPILS FROM SPECIAL SCHOOLS WITHIN THE NORTH EAST REGION, THEIR FAMILIES, AND WIDER COMMUNITIES BY:PROVIDING POST-SECONDARY, NON-TERTIARY EDUCATION, AND CARE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH PROFOUND AND MULTIPLE LEARNING DIFFICULTIES;PROVIDING A STIMULATING AND EFFECTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT (LEARNING FOR LIFE) FOR ALL YOUNG PEOPLE, INCLUDING THOSE EXPERIENCING MORE PROFOUND AND MULTIPLE LEARNING AND PHYSICAL DIFFICULTIES; PROVIDING A CARE AND SUPPORT FACILITY WHICH PROVIDES A NURTURING ENVIRONMENT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH MORE PROFOUND DISABILITIES AND INVOLVEMENT IN THE WIDER COMMUNITY; DEVELOPING FURTHER PROVISION AS YOUNG PEOPLE PROGRESS INTO WORK AND INDEPENDENT LIVING.

Grants received

12 grants · £214,354 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.

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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.

7 trustees on the board

5y median 4y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

7
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 7Education/training 7The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 7

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 8Arts and leisure 1Health and social care 1

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£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.

7.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 9.0 in 2021

56 from 42 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.
66%
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
1113970
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 11 NOV 2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27 FEB 2006AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 26 JUL 2016AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14 MAY 2021AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27 SEP 2021 as amended on 09 Feb 2023 as amended on 07 Mar 2024
Companies House
Company number 05296681 · Active
Contact on the register
01207 509936 · info@learninglife.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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