NORTH EAST STEM FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1187275 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing grants for STEM related education across the North East of England, in particular advancing the education of students of UTC South Durham.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO (OBJECTS) ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY, INCLUDING IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT LIMITED TO):* YOUNG PEOPLE RESIDING IN THE NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND; AND* STUDENTS ENROLLED AT UTC?S IN THE NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND;TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) IN RELATION TO SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS (STEM) EDUCATION.

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: County Durham, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £93,848 at the year end, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover operational costs three months ahead. The charity reported a net increase in cash funds of £10,188 for the period, with total receipts of £94,346 against total payments of £104,534.

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 4 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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 05/04/2023 (received 14/02/2024, 9 days after the 05/02/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Tania Cooperchair
• Amy Elizabeth Smith
• David Land
• David Meldrum
• Dawn Nicola Gaskins
• Jamie Ollivere
• Janine Marshall

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

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

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

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

• NORTHERN LEARNING TRUST income £890k
• NORTH LONDON WELFARE AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION income £6.6m
• SIGNIFICANCE income £53k
• PRIMARY SCIENCE TEACHING TRUST income £419k
• SCHOOLS NORTHEAST income £714k
• GROUNDWORK NORTH EAST income £8.2m

Side by side with its peers

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