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Registered charity · Newcastle upon Tyne

Common Room of the Great North Limited

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £610k (2025)
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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
Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.thecommonroom.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Common Room of the Great North Limited
Registered
2017

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£610k£738k
  • 2024£902k£1.1m
  • 2023£943k£1.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.2m£1.1m
  • 2021£2.6m£3.9m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 21%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, EDUCATION IN THE PRACTICE AND UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS, IN PARTICULAR IN THE NORTH-EAST REGION BY:A) OWNING, OPERATING AND MAINTAINING A BUILDING (KNOWN AS NEVILLE HALL IN NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) USED FOR THE PRESENTATION OF DEBATES, CONFERENCES, COURSES, EXHIBITIONS, EVENTS, LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS.B) OWNING, PRESERVING, PROTECTING AND PROMOTING THE CULTURAL, INDUSTRIAL AND ENGINEERING HERITAGE OF THE BUILDING AND ITS COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTS, BOOKS AND OBJECTS.C) PROMOTING PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND AWARENESS OF THE ROLES PLAYED BY SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS AND INNOVATION IN THE PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE OF THE NORTH-EAST REGION.THE NORTH-EAST REGION MEANS THE ADMINISTRATIVE AREAS OF THE BOROUGHS OF GATESHEAD, NORTH TYNESIDE, SOUTH TYNESIDE, HARTLEPOOL, MIDDLESBROUGH, REDCAR AND EAST CLEVELAND, STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON; THE COUNTIES OF DURHAM AND NORTHUMBERLAND; AND THE CITIES OF DURHAM, SUNDER-LAND AND NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE.

Grants received

11 grants · £215,000 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

Most recent

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

7.2y median 8y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure
10.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

6
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 10

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 6Dormant 1Finance 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together
  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£610k latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

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

25
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
1175946
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 08 FEB 2017AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 21 NOV 2017
Companies House
Company number 10609517 · Active
Contact on the register
01912509717 · hello@thecommonroom.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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