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Registered charity · Newcastle upon Tyne

The Town Moor Charity

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £1.3m (2025)
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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
Amateur Sport, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Newcastle Upon Tyne City
Website
www.freemenofnewcastle.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1966

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.3m£1.0m
  • 2024£861k£787k
  • 2023£805k£455k
Earlier years
  • 2022£696k£539k
  • 2021£645k£523k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

RIGHTS OF RESIDENT FREEMEN AND RESIDENT WIDOWS OF DECEASED FREEMEN TO HERBAGE OVER THE TOWN MOOR I.E. GRAZING RIGHTS FOR TWO MILCH COWS. THE NUMBER OF COWS TO BE PASTURED IS LIMITED TO 800, REPRESENTED BY AN EQUIVALENT NUMBER OF "STINT TICKETS" DISTRIBUTED TO THOSE SUCCESSFUL FREEMEN AND WIDOWS OF FREEMEN WHO APPLY. SECTION 11 OF THE 1870 ACT SETS OUT THE PROCEDURE AND IN TERMS SPECIFICALLY ACKNOWLEDGES AND PERMITS THE RECIPIENTS TO SELL THEIR STINT TICKETS FOR THE BEST PRICES OBTAINABLE.

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

10.5y median 5.5y
average tenure
37y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

0
company-linked trustees

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

Amateur Sport 10Environment/conservation/heritage 10

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board
  • 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£1.3m 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.

7.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 10.2 in 2021

4 from 5 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
227620
Status
Registered
Governing document
TOWN MOOR ACT 1774 THE NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE IMPROVEMENT ACT 1870, THE NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE CORPORATION ACT 1964 AND THE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE MOORS ACT 1988.
Contact on the register
01912615970 · admin@freemenofnewcastle.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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