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Registered charity (CIO) · Hexham

Kielder Observatory Astronomical Society

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £817k (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, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Northumberland
Website
www.kielderobservatory.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2013

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£817k£833k
  • 2024£799k£818k
  • 2023£904k£817k
Earlier years
  • 2022£736k£713k
  • 2021£546k£584k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

A TO PROMOTE INTEREST IN THE SCIENCE OF ASTRONOMY IN THE GENERAL PUBLICB TO FACILITATE THE EDUCATION OF MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SCIENCE OF ASTRONOMYC TO MAINTAIN AN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY IN KIELDER FOREST WHICH WILL BE USED TO SUPPORT OBJECTS A AND B

Grants received

3 grants · £144,600 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

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £121,300 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £23,300

Most recent

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £23,3002021-03-08
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £31,6002020-06-08
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £89,7002016-09-29
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.

11 trustees on the board

2y median 0y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

2
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 11Education/training 11

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

Property 3Arts and leisure 1Business services 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£817k 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.

1.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

18 from 14 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
1153570
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - Association Registered 29 Aug 2013 as amended on 26 Apr 2019
Contact on the register
01912655510 · admin@kielderobservatory.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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