Below you can find our Certificate of Incorporation, Memorandum, and Original Articles of Association. Please note: the Articles were revised in September 2019 and again in 2020.
Certificate of Incorporation, Memorandum and Original Articles of Association
Please note the Memorandum of Association in the first link remains the relevant Memorandum but the full Articles have been revised and are in the second link below.
Below you can find our funding agreements. Please note that any documents dated before our name change to Durham and Newcastle Diocesan Learning Trust will display our former company name, Durham Diocesan MAT.
Trust funding agreements
School supplemental funding agreements
Bishop Ian Ramsey CE Primary School (Signed)
Bishopton Redmarshall CE Primary School and Heighington CE Primary School (Signed)
Egglescliffe CE Primary School (Signed)
Gainford CE Primary School (Signed)
Green Lane CE Primary School (Signed)
Deed of Variation to Funding Agreement- age range change Green Lane
Greenhead CE Primary School (Signed)
Henshaw CE Primary School (Signed)
Holy Trinity CE Primary School (Signed)
Ingleton CE Primary School (Signed)
Newbrough CE Primary School (Signed)
Northern Saints CE Academy (Signed)
St Aidan’s (Gateshead) CE Primary School (Signed)
St Aidan’s CE Primary School (Signed)
St George’s CE Academy and St John’s CE Academy (Signed)
St Mary’s CE Primary School (Signed)
Stanhope Barrington CE Primary School (Signed)
Ward Jackson CE Primary School (Signed)
Annual accounts
Pay reporting
We are required by the Academy Trust Handbook to publish on our website the number of employees whose benefits exceeded £100k, in £10k bandings, for the previous year ended 31 August.
Please note that benefits for this purpose include salary, employers’ pension contributions, other taxable benefits and termination payments
2023/2024 financial year
In the financial year 2023/2024 the number of employees whose benefits, including total employer pension contributions, exceeded £100,000 were six, broken down into £10k bandings as follows:-
£100,000 to £110,000 (including employer pension contributions) - four employees
£110,000 to £120,000 (including employer pension contributions)- zero employees
£120,000 to £130,000 (including employer pension contributions)- one employee
£130,000 to £140,000 (including employer pension contributions)- one employee
Our Pay Policy provides information on how pay decisions, including executive pay decisions, are made in the Trust and a copy is at the link below.
Gender Pay Gap Reporting
Any school or trust with 250 or more employees on a specific date each year (known as the ‘snapshot’ date) must publish a gender pay gap statement on their website, which includes specific information about how both males and females are paid at their school. As a MAT it is the Trust’s responsibility to publish the data for all of our academies and details of our reports are below (please note we only fell within the reporting thresholds in the financial year 2023/2024).
Supporting the Narrative of the Gender Pay Gap Report 2024
Gender Pay Gap Service DNDLT Report 2024
Supporting the Narrative of the Gender Pay Gap Report 2023
Gender Pay Gap Service DNDLT Report 2023
Trade Union Facility Time Report
Durham and Newcastle Diocesan Learning Trust
Trade Union Facility Time Report 2024/25
Reporting period: 1 April 2024 – 31 March 2025
Employees in the organisation
50 to 1,500 employees
Trade union representatives and full-time equivalents
Trade union representatives: 9
FTE trade union representatives: 7.8
Percentage of working hours spent on facility time
0% of working hours: 9 representatives
1–50% of working hours: 0 representatives
51–99% of working hours: 0 representatives
100% of working hours: 0 representatives
Total pay bill and facility time costs
Total pay bill: £19,982,545
Total cost of facility time: £6,500
Percentage of pay spent on facility time: 0.03%
Paid trade union activities
Hours spent on paid facility time: 0
Hours spent on paid trade union activities: 0
Percentage of total paid facility time hours spent on paid TU activities: 0%
Previous 2 year's submissions
Durham and Newcastle Diocesan Learning Trust
1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024
Employees in your organisation
50 to 1,500 employees
Trade union representatives and full-time equivalents
Trade union representatives: 6
FTE trade union representatives: 5.2
Percentage of working hours spent on facility time
0% of working hours: 4 representatives
1 to 50% of working hours: 2 representatives
51 to 99% of working hours: 0 representatives
100% of working hours: 0 representatives
Total pay bill and facility time costs
Total pay bill: £17473177
Total cost of facility time: £6192.54
Percentage of pay spent on facility time: 0.04%
Paid trade union activities
Hours spent on paid facility time: 15.5
Hours spent on paid trade union activities: 14
Percentage of total paid facility time hours spent on paid TU activities:90.32%
Durham and Newcastle Diocesan Learning Trust
1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023
Employees in your organisation
50 to 1,500 employees
Trade union representatives and full-time equivalents
Trade union representatives: 10
FTE trade union representatives: 9.5
Percentage of working hours spent on facility time
0% of working hours: 9 representatives
1 to 50% of working hours: 1 representatives
51 to 99% of working hours: 0 representatives
100% of working hours: 0 representatives
Total pay bill and facility time costs
Total pay bill: £9803346
Total cost of facility time: £2925.88
Percentage of pay spent on facility time: 0.03%
Paid trade union activities
Hours spent on paid facility time: 9
Hours spent on paid trade union activities: 6.5
Percentage of total paid facility time hours spent on paid TU activities: 72.22%