North Tyneside Disability Forum

What North Tyneside Disability Forum does

North Tyneside Disability Forum (NTDF) is a user-led registered charity (Charity No. 1182346) established in 1987 and headquartered in Shiremoor, North Tyneside, UK. It operates a cradle-to-grave portfolio of accessible services for disabled people of all ages — from babies and toddlers to nonagenarians — and for their families and representatives, with activities running seven days a week across mornings, afternoons, evenings, and weekends. The organisation is independent of Local and Health Authorities and is governed by a board chaired by Dr. Bob Dennis, with Sue Adams as Chief Officer.

NTDF delivers roughly eight core programmes that double as both direct services and vocational training environments: a Community Cafe in Shiremoor (subsidised food, open Tuesday/Wednesday/Friday 10:00–14:00); a Community Shop in Whitley Bay (retail skills training, open six days a week); the NTDFuture Lives vocational and life-skills project for disabled young people aged 16+; the Young People project for ages 7–25; Knit, Natter and Craft; Music, Song and Dance activities; the Mission: Possible COVID-19 response (200+ families supported); the Doing Our Bit community garden and food-growing project; and the Tales of COVID Lives heritage project backed by the National Heritage Fund. There is no proprietary technology platform; the technical footprint is limited to a WordPress website and a Facebook group.

The revenue model is entirely charitable: NTDF draws funding from a diverse base of 20+ charitable trusts and foundations (National Lottery Community Fund, BBC Children in Need, Garfield Weston, Henry Smith, Lloyds Bank Foundation, Leeds Building Society Foundation, Zurich Community Trust, Asda Foundation, Morrisons, Make Some Noise, The Prince's Trust, P&G, Co-op Foundation, Arnold Clark, Stagecoach, Newcastle City Council, Karbon Homes, Neighbourly, The DM Thomas Foundation, and the National Heritage Fund), supplemented by individual donations (one-off and monthly, online via credit/debit card or Apple Pay) and earned revenue from the Community Cafe and Community Shop. Service-user pricing is heavily subsidised — adult sessions are £3.00 per session over 10-week blocks, songs around the piano £3.50 — explicitly to address local food and fuel poverty. The go-to-market is community-led rather than commercial: users come by choice through word of mouth, family, friends, neighbours, and other-service referrals, and the model is structurally that of a community-services charity rather than a venture-backed enterprise.

Name

North Tyneside Disability Forum

Legal name

North Tyneside Disability Forum

Website

https://ntdf.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1987

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

North Tyneside Disability Forum is a user-led registered charity, established in 1987 in Shiremoor, delivering a seven-day-a-week portfolio of accessible activities, vocational training, a community café, and a community shop for disabled people of all ages across North Tyneside.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Disability Community Services

NAICS

Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities (62412)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Disability Services & Independent Living Support (BPAGAEAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Disability Services & Independent Living Support (BPAGACAG), Disability Services & Assistive Solutions (Accessibility, Assistive Tech) (BPAGALAM)

Keywords

• Disability support services
• Community activities charity
• Vocational training programmes
• Inclusive community projects
• Affordable community cafe

Headquarters

HQ city

Shiremoor., North Tyneside

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Charitable donations and funding: North Tyneside Disability Forum is entirely funded by charitable contributions and revenue made from charitable endeavours. The organisation draws funding from a range of charitable trusts and organisations.
2. Community Cafe revenue: The NTDF Community Cafe generates revenue by providing food at highly subsidised prices while also serving as a training environment for young employability trainees. Open Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 10:00-14:00.
3. Community Shop revenue: The Community Shop in Whitley Bay sells donated quality goods at fair prices. Revenue generated goes directly back into enabling the charity to deliver their portfolio of 7 day a week accessible and supported services.
4. Donations: Accepting monthly donations and one-off donations from supporters. Donations can be made online via credit/debit card or Apple Pay.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

North Tyneside Disability Forum is a user-led registered charity (Charity Reg: 1182346) established in 1987 delivering accessible, supported activities, events and opportunities to disabled people of all ages in North Tyneside. The organisation runs a portfolio of community projects including a subsidised Community Cafe, a Community Shop, vocational training initiatives, social and creative activity programmes, food poverty relief, and a heritage project, all delivered seven days a week from its centre in Shiremoor and shop in Whitley Bay.

Product overview

North Tyneside Disability Forum is a user-led charity established in 1987 offering a portfolio of community services for disabled people and their families across North Tyneside. The organization operates a range of projects including a Community Cafe providing affordable food and vocational training, a Community Shop for retail skills development, and various activity programs including Knit Natter and Craft, Young People activities, and the NTDFuture Lives vocational project. Additional services include the Mission: Possible COVID-19 support initiative, Doing Our Bit environmental/gardening project, and Tales of COVID Lives heritage project. The organization delivers activities around health and social care, leisure, learning, employability, arts, music, drama, and wellbeing.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• NTDF Centre: The physical centre location in Shiremoor, North Tyneside where the organization operates.
• NTDF Cafe
• NTDF Community Shop

Products and services

• Community Cafe
• Community Shop
• Knit, Natter and Craft
• Mission: Possible
• Doing Our Bit
• NTDFuture Lives
• Tales of COVID Lives
• Young People Project

Quantifiable outcome

• 200+ families supported through COVID-19 crisis via Mission: Possible project
• +2 more outcomes

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Scope: UK disability equality charity providing information, advice, and disability-led services across England and Wales. Comparable as a national disability services and advocacy organisation, but Scope's scale, national footprint, and policy focus differentiate it from NTDF's community-led, hyper-local delivery model.
• Hft: UK charity supporting people with learning disabilities through personalised support services. Operates a community-based service model similar in spirit to NTDF (centre-based activities, life skills, employability), but at significantly larger national scale with residential and supported living services.
• United Response: UK charity providing person-centred support for people with learning disabilities, autism, and mental health needs. Comparable in its community-based, person-centred support philosophy, though operates nationally with significantly broader service portfolio and headcount than NTDF.
• Real Life Options: UK provider of person-centred support services for people with learning disabilities, autism, and complex needs. Operates supported living and community-based programmes similar in ethos to NTDF, but at substantially greater geographic and operational scale.
• Mencap: Leading UK charity for people with learning disabilities, providing support, advice, and campaigning. Comparable in mission (supporting disabled people across all ages) but operates nationally with residential, advocacy, and employment services at far greater scale than NTDF.
• Sense: UK charity supporting people with complex disabilities, including those who are deafblind. Comparable as a disability support and community services provider, though Sense's specialisation in complex disabilities and national footprint place it in a broader incumbent category relative to NTDF's general disability community services.
• Leonard Cheshire: One of the UK's largest disability charities supporting disabled people across community services, education, employment, and independent living. Broadly comparable as a UK-wide disability services provider, though operating at significantly greater scale and geographic reach than NTDF's hyper-local North Tyneside model.

Others

• Community Catalysts: UK social enterprise supporting people to set up small, local community services and micro-enterprises, particularly for disabled and older people. Thematically adjacent to NTDF's social enterprise model (cafe, shop) and community-led ethos, but operates as an enabling intermediary rather than direct service provider.

Emerging players

• Disability Rights UK: User-led pan-disability organisation led by disabled people, providing advice, information, and campaigning. Comparable user-led ethos and focus on disabled people's voice, but functions primarily as an advice and advocacy body rather than delivering community activities and social enterprise programmes like NTDF.

Direct peers

• Inclusion London: User-led disability organisation run by and for Deaf and disabled people in London. Closest direct peer to NTDF in terms of user-led governance model, community-embedded service delivery, and disabled-led ethos, though operating in a different geography with an advocacy and policy emphasis alongside direct services.

Market position

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/groups/480702282107690
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/north-tyneside-disability-forum

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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