Company · Newcastle upon Tyne
Jesmond Community Leisure
Operation of sports facilities
Official record Companies House · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Belinda WhitworthDirector · since 2025
- Scott James IllingworthDirector · since 2024
- Jane ShearerDirector · since 2024
- John MillsDirector · since 2023
- Keith ButcherDirector · since 2019
- Martin Frederick HuntDirector · since 2016
- Simon Gordon LeachDirector · since 2010
- Michael David MillerDirector · since 1995
Previous officers 35
- James Welford 2022-2024 View profile
- Dr Katie Steele 2020-2021 View profile
- Deborah Easton 2019-2024 View profile
- Duncan Philip Davies 2015-2019 View profile
- Gary Laverick 2013-2018 View profile
- David Marshall Ogilvie 2013-2017 View profile
- Annette Hames 2013-2025 View profile
- Peter Arthur Slater 2010-2014 View profile
- Bethia Jane Lowdon 2010-2016 View profile
- Paul Richard Ryder 2010-2018 View profile
- Paul Anthony Rea 2008-2020 View profile
- Richard Stephen Taylor 2007-2015 View profile
- Elizabeth Mcalpine 2006-2018 View profile
- Charlotte Dixon 2005-2005 View profile
- Russell Stephen Deane 2004-2018 View profile
- Robert Roland Evans 2002-2006 View profile
- Philip David Patrick Angier 2001-2003 View profile
- Dr Gary George Green 2001-2002 View profile
- David Rushworth 2000-2013 View profile
- William Leslie Hodgson 2000-2018 View profile
- Peter Angus Hall 1997-2006 View profile
- Nigel Marshall Jenkins 1996-1998 View profile
- Rebecca Jane Gibbon 1995-2014 View profile
- Paul John Woodcock 1995-1997 View profile
- Willem Michael Jellema 1993-2008 View profile
- Julian Alexander Stephen Aal 1992-1995 View profile
- Andrew Thomas Plasom - Scott 2005 View profile
- Peter Francis Breakey 1995 View profile
- John Barrie Thompson 2022 View profile
- Neil Andrew Hemmings 2001 View profile
- John Cathcart Miller 1994 View profile
- Philip Michael Moxon 2017 View profile
- Christopher John Lawrey Clarke 2000-2020 View profile
- Julian Click 1993-2000 View profile
- Elizabeth Angier 1998 View profile
Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.
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About
- What it does
- Operation of sports facilities
- Incorporated
- 13/09/1991
- Registered office
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Also a registered charity
- Jesmond Community Leisure
- Previous names
- Jesmond Swimming Project (until 23/02/2011)
Board analysis
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from the Companies House officer record and Charity Commission trustee records - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Companies House officer record: the current directors only, past directors excluded.
8 directors on the board
- Jane Shearer Director · appointed 2024
- John Mills Director · appointed 2023
- Simon Gordon Leach Director · appointed 2010
- Keith Butcher Director · appointed 2019
- Scott James Illingworth Director · appointed 2024
- Michael David Miller Director · appointed 1995
- Belinda Whitworth Director · appointed 2025
- Martin Frederick Hunt Director · appointed 2016
Directors past 6 years
- Simon Gordon Leach Director · appointed 2010
- Keith Butcher Director · appointed 2019
- Michael David Miller Director · appointed 1995
- Martin Frederick Hunt Director · appointed 2016
First-time vs portfolio directors
First-time (8)
- Jane Shearer Director · appointed 2024
- John Mills Director · appointed 2023
- Simon Gordon Leach Director · appointed 2010
- Keith Butcher Director · appointed 2019
- Scott James Illingworth Director · appointed 2024
- Michael David Miller Director · appointed 1995
- Belinda Whitworth Director · appointed 2025
- Martin Frederick Hunt Director · appointed 2016
Gaps to watch
- Several long-serving directors could step down together
- No director brings board experience from anywhere else
- Narrow spread of sectors across the board
Where to look Suggested search: succession planning for long-tenured seats; a director with board experience elsewhere.
Sources
Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Company number
- 02645699
- Status
- Active
- Type
- PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)
- Accounts next due
- 30/09/2026
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.
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