NIWE EATING DISTRESS SERVICE TRADING AS EATING DISTRESS NORTH EAST

Registered charity 1150416 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NIWE EATING DISTRESS SERVICE

We are the only specialist eating distress charity in the North East and aim to be a centre of excellence for eating distress support. We offer counselling, support, information, help and hope to anyone in the North East affected by eating distress, with or without a medical diagnosis.We work to raise awareness, increase understanding and influence early identification and treatment.

Objects

(A)THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF GOOD MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH BY THE PROVISION OF SERVICES INCLUDING A CONFIDENTIAL HELPLINE/LISTENING SERVICE, GROUPS AND SUPPORT, TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS, PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, OF WOMEN WITH EATING DISTRESS AND EATING DISORDERS AND TO OFFER CHARITABLE SUPPORT TO THE FAMILIES,FRIENDS AND CARERS OF SUCH PEOPLE;(B)TO PROVIDE A COMPLEMENTARY SERVICE TO EXISTING PROVISIONS; AND (C)TO PROMOTE GREATER KNOWLEDGE AND HEIGHTEN AWARENESS OF EATING DISTRESS AND EATING DISORDERS AND THEIR EFFECT.

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus in 2025-26 with total income rising to £769,802. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £7,972, which is below the stated policy target of four months of operating costs. The charity remains a going concern with secured funding for the current year.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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
• Trustee expenses 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Eating Distress North East (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~0.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/07/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Kay Joneschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Beth Allan
• Bobbi Temple
• Eleanor Hall
• Leah Scott
• Oliver Bell
• Sarah Bentley
• Thomas Meadows

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

Operates in: Darlington · Durham · Gateshead · Hartlepool · Newcastle Upon Tyne City · North Tyneside · Northumberland · South Tyneside · Stockton-on-tees · Sunderland

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Eating Disorder Service (Plymouth).

• Eating Disorder Service (Plymouth) income £605k
• PERSONALISED EATING DISORDER SUPPORT income £506k
• EATING MATTERS income £356k
• NORTH EAST DIVERSITY EDUCATION AND SOLIDARITY income £183k
• NORTH EAST WELLBEING income £330k
• FREED income £152k

Side by side with its peers

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