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Registered charity · Barnsley

The Northern College for Residential Adult Education Limited

To advance education, particularly by the provision, organisation and arrangements of full-time or part-time courses of study or educational research, whether or not leading to any formal qualification.

  • 2 trustees
  • Income £4.7m (2025)
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About

What it does
Education/training, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Barnsley
Website
www.northern.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Northern College for Residential Adult Education Limited
Registered
1978

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4.7m£4.5m
  • 2024£4.4m£4.2m
  • 2023£3.8m£4.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.3m£5.1m
  • 2021£4.6m£4.9m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 85%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

To advance education, particularly by the provision, organisation and arrangements of full-time or part-time courses of study or educational research, whether or not leading to any formal qualification.

Grants received

1 grant · £9,700 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £9,700

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,7002017-09-13
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.

2 trustees on the board

0y median 0y
average tenure
0y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (2)

2
company-linked trustees

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

Economic/community Development/employment 2Education/training 2

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

Education 12Arts and leisure 1Construction 1

Gaps to watch

  • Small board - little cover if a trustee leaves

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£4.7m 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.

9.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.1 in 2021

59 from 67 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
507245
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 18 NOV 1977 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS OF 13 DEC 1990, 28 MAY 1993 (TAKING AFFECT 1 SEPT 1993), 10 JULY 2001, 26 MARCH 2004 AND NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 17 JULY 2009.AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16/07/2015 as amended on 18 May 2020 as amended on 27 Feb 2026
Companies House
Company number 01339524 · Active
Contact on the register
01226776005 · charity@northern.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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