Schools Northeast

Analysis

Schools Northeast is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Newcastle Upon Tyne. It was registered in May 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes and education/training, which this site groups under education and training. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 06450637). It says it provides services, provides advocacy/advice/information and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending July 2025, Schools Northeast reported income of £714k and spending of £581k, spending 81% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from July 2021 to July 2025, income grew from £425k to £714k (+68%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to July 2022, when income rose by 34%. Over the whole period it spent 86% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Schools Northeast sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 92nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Y Bont (£713k), The Citizenship Foundation (£715k) and British Society of Soil Science (£712k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from trading 66%, charitable activities 32% and investments 1.8%. Charitable activities took 46% of spending and raising funds 54%. Reserves of £560k would cover about 12 months of spending at that rate. It employed 10 people.