NORTH TYNESIDE DISABILITY FORUM LTD

Registered charity 1182346 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NORTH TYNESIDE DISABILITY FORUM, NTDF

We deliver activities and events around health and social care, leisure and learning, employability, enterprise and vocation, advice and guidance, sports, arts, music and drama, health and wellbeing informed by ongoing user led consultations and evaluations across all age ranges and areas of work. We operate from a Centre base and use outreach locations.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES WITHIN NORTH TYNESIDE AND SURROUNDING AREAS AND THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS WHO ARE AFFECTED BY THEIR DISABILITY AND ELDERLY PEOPLE IN NEED DUE TO THEIR AGE OR INFIRMITY BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND PRACTICAL SUPPORT, ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES DESIGNED TO ADVANCE THEIR EDUCATION AND BY PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: North Tyneside, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a net deficit of £53,185 for the year ended 31 March 2026, resulting in a decrease in total reserves from £717,040 to £663,855. The trustees maintain a reserves policy of four months' running costs, noting that unrestricted free reserves of £15,573 remain after designated contingencies, which is below the policy target of £118,533. Despite the deficit and increased operational pressures from the cost of living crisis, the trustees consider the charity to be a going concern with adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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
• 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 — North Tyneside Disability Forum (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/02/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ROBERT LEONARD DENNIS DRchair
• AUDREY REYNOLDS
• Dr HELEN DRIVER
• ELIZABETH ANN CRAVEN
• GEORGE TALBOT
• JAMES FREDERICK NUNN
• JOAN BYRNE

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

Operates in: North Tyneside

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 NORTH TYNESIDE ART STUDIO.

• NORTH TYNESIDE ART STUDIO income £189k
• DISABILITY NORTH income £732k
• THE NORTH NORTHUMBERLAND HOSPICE income £1.2m
• THE NORTH TYNESIDE CARERS CENTRE income £962k
• TYNESIDE CHARITABLE TRUST income £30k
• NORTHMOOR COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £177k

Side by side with its peers

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