Registered charity (CIO) · Durham
Difference
- 5 trustees
- Income £141k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Arts/culture/heritage/science and 2 more
- Where
- Throughout England
- Website
- www.differencenortheast.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2016
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£141k£123k
- 2024£127k£99k
- 2023£101k£76k
Earlier years
- 2022£68k£67k
- 2021£70k£58k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 3%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION IN RELATION TO DISABLED PEOPLE IN THE NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND AND BY AIMING TO IDENTIFY AND ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION AND OTHER FACTORS WHICH EXCLUDE DISABLED PEOPLE FROM BEING EQUAL PARTICIPANTS IN COMMUNITIES AND SOCIETY; AND HIGHLIGHTING THE WAYS IN WHICH DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION IS EXPERIENCED IN EVERYDAY LIFE.
Grants received
15 grants · £937,979 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 Community Fund · £751,102 (7 grants)
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £108,963
- Millfield House Foundation · £40,000
- Community Foundation North East · £29,914 (4 grants)
- Point North · £8,000 (2 grants)
Most recent
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund
- The National Lottery Community 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.
5 trustees on the board
- Alistair Stuart Chisholm since 2025
- Caroline Macdonald since 2023
- Gillian Lathan since 2017
- Nicky Erevik since 2017
- Valerie Milnes since 2018
Trustees past 6 years
- Gillian Lathan since 2017
- Nicky Erevik since 2017
- Valerie Milnes since 2018
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- Alistair Stuart Chisholm since 2025
- Caroline Macdonald since 2023
- Gillian Lathan since 2017
- Nicky Erevik since 2017
Portfolio (1)
- Valerie Milnes 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.
Gaps to watch
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1170789
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 16 Dec 2016
- Contact on the register
- 07817619333 · hello@differencenortheast.org.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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