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Registered charity · South Shields

Ocean Road Centre

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £1.9m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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
General Charitable Purposes, Disability, Recreation
Where
South Tyneside
Website
www.oceanroadca.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Ocean Road Centre
Registered
2017

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.9m£404k
  • 2024£355k£272k
  • 2023£315k£280k
Earlier years
  • 2022£267k£222k
  • 2021£220k£136k
Charitable objects

TO FURTHER OR BENEFIT PEOPLE LIVING IN AND AROUND OCEAN ROAD AND THE WIDER COMMUNITY IN SOUTH SHIELDS, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID RESIDENTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE RESIDENTS.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

6 trustees on the board

6.8y median 9y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

15.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

5
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Disability 6General Charitable Purposes 6Recreation 6

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

Health and social care 7Arts and leisure 2Business services 2

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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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£1.9m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

10.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

20
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
1172910
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 06 APR 2017 as amended on 26 Mar 2026
Companies House
Company number 10714067 · Active
Contact on the register
01914230787 · liz.stephenson@oceanroadca.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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