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
- Gavin Macfarlane BlackChair · since 2013
- Adam James SerfonteinTrustee · since 2023
- Catherine WinfieldTrustee · since 2025
- DR Richard Malcolm PearsTrustee · since 2015
- Elizabeth Hannah MacrobertTrustee · since 2022
- Ian Martin AyrisTrustee · since 2023
- John GrundyTrustee · since 2011
- Katie Coralee MountainTrustee · since 2022
- Pauline AllenTrustee · since 2026
- Rev Lee Paul BatsonTrustee · since 2025
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 total360Giving 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
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund
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
- Gavin Macfarlane Black Chair since 2013
- Adam James Serfontein since 2023
- Catherine Winfield since 2025
- DR Richard Malcolm Pears since 2015
- Elizabeth Hannah Macrobert since 2022
- Ian Martin Ayris since 2023
- John Grundy since 2011
- Katie Coralee Mountain since 2022
- Pauline Allen since 2026
- Rev Lee Paul Batson since 2025
Trustees past 6 years
- Gavin Macfarlane Black Chair since 2013
- DR Richard Malcolm Pears since 2015
- John Grundy since 2011
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- Adam James Serfontein since 2023
- DR Richard Malcolm Pears since 2015
- Elizabeth Hannah Macrobert since 2022
- Ian Martin Ayris since 2023
- John Grundy since 2011
- Pauline Allen since 2026
Portfolio (4)
- Gavin Macfarlane Black Chair since 2013
- Catherine Winfield since 2025
- Katie Coralee Mountain since 2022
- Rev Lee Paul Batson since 2025
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
5.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months
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
- 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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