DANCE NORTH
Registered charity 702801 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DANCE CITY
Art development agency - National Dance Centre North East
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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity recorded a net expenditure of £165,860 for the year ended 31 March 2025, continuing a trend of deficits. The trustees have identified a material uncertainty regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern due to these deficits and forecasts of a further deficit in 2026, although they remain confident the charity has sufficient resources to operate for the foreseeable future.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: £250,000 (held: £362k)
“the target level of unrestricted reserves to be £250,000” — page 9
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Going concern: material uncertainty disclosed
“We draw attention to note 1 to the accounts in relation to the accounting policy on going concern, which indicates that the charity has made a deficit in the current and previous accounting periods and is forecasting a further deficit in the 2026 financial year. As stated in note 1, these events indicate that a material uncertainty exists that may cast significant doubt on the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.” — page 12
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Robson Laidler Accountants Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Year-over-year changes
- Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → material uncertainty (FY2025).
Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Jim Hollington — Interim CEO (source)
Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.
Property (HM Land Registry)
5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £180k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£39k
Reported reserves equal ~0.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (48% 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: 2.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
- Lyndsey Turner-Swiftchair
- Aaron Markwell
- Anthony Hope
- Charlotte McMurchie
- Dr Tomke Kossen-Veenhuis
- Emily Snow
- Emma Jane Harrison
- Karen Muir
- Sarah Dewar
- Shirley Marland
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Throughout England
Income and spending
Common questions
Is DANCE NORTH financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity recorded a net expenditure of £165,860 for the year ended 31 March 2025, continuing a trend of deficits. The trustees have identified a material uncertainty regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern due to these deficits and forecasts of a further deficit in 2026, although they remain confident the charity has sufficient resources to operate for the foreseeable future. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Robson Laidler Accountants Limited.
Government & lottery funding
Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).
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Side by side with its peers
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