NORTHERN LEARNING TRUST

Registered charity 1120330 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To advance learning and skills including literacy, numeracy, communication skills, employability, family learning and mentoring across the North East of England.

Objects

TO ADVANCE LEARNING, INCLUDING LITERACY, NUMERACY AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS, ACROSS THE NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND.

Area of benefit: NORTH EAST ENGLAND

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Newcastle upon Tyne, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £151,531 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income increasing by 30% to £889,889. However, unrestricted free reserves of £200,757 are below the trustees' stated policy target of £320,000 to £340,000, which represents six months of operating costs. The trustees acknowledge that funding levels are expected to reduce in the coming year but maintain that sufficient funding is secured for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: NLT LEARNING LIMITED Companies House 05495501
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06316736

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Northern Learning Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• MCMILLAN, Jeannie — director, appointed 18/01/2024on trustee list
• BEAR, Melanie Ann — director, appointed 18/01/2024on trustee list
• DELANDRE, Anne — director, appointed 22/04/2021on trustee list
• RANSON, Michael Leonard — director, appointed 17/01/2019not on trustee list
• WYNN, Ann Petrice — director, appointed 21/04/2008on trustee list
• BROWN, Anthony George Asquith — director, appointed 18/07/2007on trustee list
• SHEERIN, Elizabeth Mary — secretary, appointed 18/10/2012

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (67% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANTHONY GEORGE ASQUITH BROWNchair
• ANN WYNN
• Anne Delandre
• Jeannie McMillan
• Melanie Ann Bear
• Michael Leonard Ranson JP, FCA · trustee of 1 other charity

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Durham · Gateshead · Middlesbrough · Newcastle Upon Tyne City · North Tyneside · Northumberland · South Tyneside · Sunderland

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LEARNING PARTNERSHIPS.

• LEARNING PARTNERSHIPS income £688k
• THE TRAINING AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION income £33k
• PREMIER LEARNING income £85k
• LD:NORTHEAST income £1.4m
• LEARN N GROW income £143k
• CONNIE ROTHMAN LEARNING TRUST income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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