The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

The Fitzhugh Library

Registered charity 700930 Registered since 1988

Operates: Durham

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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.

1.6y median 0y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (2)

1
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 6Arts/culture/heritage/science 5Environment/conservation/heritage 5General Charitable Purposes 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Business services 1Other services 1Tech and media 1

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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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£2k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.thefitzhughlibray.co.uk
Emailfitzhughlibrary@gmail.com
Phone01833640074
AddressThe Fitzhugh Library, 1st Floor, 51 Market Place, Middleton-In-Teesdale, BARNARD CASTLE, County Durham, DL12 0QH

Finances

£1,533 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£21,420£3,389
2022£1,982£3,048
2023£1,205£4,025
2024£1,084£4,209
2025£1,533£3,649

What it does

What

Education/trainingArts/culture/heritage/scienceEnvironment/conservation/heritage

Who

The General Public/mankind

How

Provides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides ServicesProvides Advocacy/advice/informationSponsors Or Undertakes ResearchActs As An Umbrella Or Resource Body

Charitable objects

The objects of the Trust are to provide a library within the Ecclesiastical Parish of Romaldkirk or elsewhere in the County Palatine of Durham for the purposes of research by serious students of the local history of:(a) The geographical County Palatine of Durham as it was at 1835 and including Craykeshire, Bedlingtonshire, Norhamshire and Holy Island (Lindisfarne) with Islandshire and after 1847 the new County Durham boundaries as were then created, notwithstanding any subsequent boundary changes.(b) The geographical Ecclesiastical Parish of Romaldkirk as it was prior to 1845.

Governing document: DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 8 NOVEMBER 1988 as amended on 21 Jan 2023 as amended on 14 Apr 2025 as amended on 13 Jan 2026

Trustees (6)

6trustees
68median age
0aged 70+

Connected charities (4)

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