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Registered charity · Gosforth

Northumberland Wildlife Trust Limited

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £5.5m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

Who leads it

Also 4 organisations acting as trustee: Chris Taylor, Hugh Ferrand, Ian Jackson, Katie Stevens.

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Newcastle Upon Tyne City, North Tyneside, Northumberland
Website
www.nwt.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Northumberland Wildlife Trust Limited
Registered
1964

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£5.5m£4.7m
  • 2024£4.2m£4.1m
  • 2023£5.3m£3.9m
Earlier years
  • 2022£5.4m£3.4m
  • 2021£3.0m£2.7m
Charitable objects

(1) FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, TO ADVANCE, PROMOTE AND FURTHER (PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY WITHIN THE COUNTY OF NORTHUMBERLAND, CITY OF NEWCASTLE AND BOROUGH OF NORTH TYNESIDE OR OTHER SUCH DESIGNATION AS MAY BE GIVEN TO THOSE AREAS) THE CONSERVATION MAINTENANCE AND PROTECTION OF (A) WILDLIFE AND ITS HABITATS (B) PLACES OF NATURAL BEAUTY (C) PLACES & OBJECTS OF ZOOLOGICAL, BOTANICAL, ECOLOGICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL, ARCHAEOLOGICAL, HISTORICAL OR SCIENTIFIC INTEREST (D) FEATURES OF LANDSCAPE WITH GEOLOGICAL, PHYSIOGRAPHICAL OR AMENITY VALUE, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, IN WAYS THAT FURTHER BIODIVERSITY. (2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN (A) THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (B) THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION. (3) TO PROMOTE RESEARCH IN ALL BRANCHES OF NATURE STUDY AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF.

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.

10 trustees on the board

6.5y median 7y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

10
company-linked trustees

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

Environment/conservation/heritage 10Religious Activities 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.

Other services 10Arts and leisure 2Professional services 2

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£5.5m 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.

2.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months

106 from 54 in 2021
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
221819
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 13 MARCH 1962 (MODEL) AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 10 DECEMBER 1970, 31 MARCH 1971, 18 MAY 2002 AND 19TH MAY 2007.AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16 SEP 2017
Companies House
Company number 00717813 · Active
Contact on the register
0191 284 6884 · mail@northwt.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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