Registered charity (CIO) · Newcastle upon Tyne
Search: Services for Older People CIO
- 8 trustees
- Income £762k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Jenefer BellChair · since 2021
- Catherine WinfieldTrustee · since 2022
- Dr Frank LaiTrustee · since 2023
- Keith John WilliamsonTrustee · since 2018
- Linda WoodcockTrustee · since 2025
- Mark Terence HardyTrustee · since 2021
- Michael ScoularTrustee · since 2026
- Ruth TaylorTrustee · since 2015
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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People on this board also serve on 5 other charities:
- Heart of the City Partnership · 1 shared trustee
- Jane Gibson Almshouses · 1 shared trustee
- The Elders Council of Newcastle Limited · 1 shared trustee
- Acorns (North Tyneside) · 1 shared trustee
- Newcastle Carers · 1 shared trustee
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes
- Where
- Newcastle Upon Tyne City
- Website
- www.searchnewcastle.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2015
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£762k£743k
- 2024£775k£817k
- 2023£641k£620k
Earlier years
- 2022£550k£493k
- 2021£570k£479k
Charitable objects
TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF ELDERLY PEOPLE, AND THOSE PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM THE EFFECTS OF PREMATURE AGEING, RESIDING IN NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA IN ANY MANNER WHICH IS DEEMED CHARITABLE WITHIN THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES.
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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.
8 trustees on the board
- Jenefer Bell Chair since 2021
- Catherine Winfield since 2022
- Dr Frank Lai since 2023
- Keith John Williamson since 2018
- Linda Woodcock since 2025
- Mark Terence Hardy since 2021
- Michael Scoular since 2026
- Ruth Taylor since 2015
Trustees past 6 years
- Keith John Williamson since 2018
- Ruth Taylor since 2015
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- Jenefer Bell Chair since 2021
- Dr Frank Lai since 2023
- Linda Woodcock since 2025
- Mark Terence Hardy since 2021
- Michael Scoular since 2026
- Ruth Taylor since 2015
Portfolio (2)
- Catherine Winfield since 2022
- Keith John Williamson since 2018
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
3.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 5.1 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1159907
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - Foundation Registered 12 Jan 2015
- Contact on the register
- 01912737443 · info@searchnewcastle.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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