Newcastle Diocesan Education Board

Analysis

Newcastle Diocesan Education Board is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in North Shields. It was registered in April 1967, 59 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, religious activities and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under religion. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 00480293). It says it makes grants to organisations, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Newcastle Diocesan Education Board reported income of £79k and spending of £315k, spending 400% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £240k to £79k (-67%), an average of -24% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 120%. Over the whole period it spent 169% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Newcastle Diocesan Education Board sits at the 57th percentile: it is larger than about 57% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Kolel Belz Machnovkeh Limited (£79k), Yarm Methodist Church (£79k) and The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Michael with St Augustine, Beckenham (£79k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.