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Registered charity · Newcastle upon Tyne

Heart of the City Partnership

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £564k (2024)

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, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Newcastle Upon Tyne City
Website
www.newcastlecastle.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Heart of the City Partnership
Registered
2016

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£564k£536k
  • 2023£486k£464k
  • 2022£390k£419k
Earlier years
  • 2021£310k£397k
  • 2020£472k£319k

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

4.1 THE ONLY OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO: 4.1.1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND PROMOTION OF LEARNING, IN PARTICULAR IN RELATION TO THE HISTORY AND HERITAGE OF THE AREA AROUND ST NICHOLAS’ CATHEDRAL IN PARTICULAR NEWCASTLE CASTLE IN NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE (“THE CITY”); 4.1.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF CULTURE AND HERITAGE BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY AND VISITORS TO THE CITY TO APPRECIATE AND ENJOY THE HISTORY AND FABRIC OF THE SAID BUILDINGS 4.1.3 THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF NEWCASTLE CASTLE BEING OF HISTORICAL INTEREST AND PUBLIC IMPORTANCE AND PARTICULARLY THE GRADE I LISTED BUILDINGS AND SCHEDULED ANCIENT MONUMENTS KNOWN AS THE BLACK GATE AND CASTLE KEEP. (“THE OBJECTS”).

Grants received

5 grants · £1,887,800 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 · £1,562,600 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £310,200 (2 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £15,000

Most recent

  • Garfield Weston Foundation £15,0002025-09-03
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £103,5002021-03-08
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £206,7002020-10-14
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £79,1002020-06-22
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £1,483,5002010-07-20
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.

10 trustees on the board

5.5y median 3.5y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

17.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (4)

10
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 7Education/training 7Environment/conservation/heritage 7The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 3Religious Activities 2The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 2Accommodation/housing 1General Charitable Purposes 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 11Other services 8Education 3

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£564k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
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.

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

23
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
1165434
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 17/09/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/04/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30/09/2015AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 21/10/2015
Companies House
Company number 06373460 · Active
Contact on the register
01912306300 · info@newcastlecastle.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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