CIC 34
Community Interest Company Report
Company Name in full Tyneside Community Digital Community Interest Company
Company Number 12458729
Year Ending 31 March 2026
This template illustrates what the Regulator of Community Interest Companies considers to be best practice for completing a simplified community interest company report. All such reports must be delivered in accordance with section 34 of the Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Act 2004 and contain the information required by Part 7 of the Community Interest Company Regulations 2005.
PART 1 – GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE COMPANY’S ACTIVITIES AND IMPACT
In the space provided below, please insert a general account of the company’s activities in the financial year to which the report relates, including a description of how they have benefited the community.
The company exists to support not for profit community radio in Newcastle and Gateshead principally through providing charge free carriage on a small scale DAB service.

The service has been licenced from Ofcom. The existing four community radio services provide input to the CIC’s strategy through the election of one director to represent their interests at Board level.
PART 2 – CONSULTATION WITH STAKEHOLDERS
A “stakeholder” is any person or organisation affected by the company’s activities.
Please indicate who the company’s stakeholders are:
The CICs stakeholders are the four community radio services, these organisations have
agreed terms for the fee carriage with the CIC.

The four community radio services have been involved in the development of the CIC and
the bid for the licence from Ofcom.

The four community radio services elect one of the three CIC directors who will respect
their interests and provide feedback.
Please indicate how the stakeholders have been consulted [or leave blank if there has been no consultation]:
Please indicate what action the company has taken in response to feedback from its consultations [or leave blank if there has been no consultation]:
If there has been no consultation you must state ‘There has been no stakeholder consultation held’ below:
PART 3 – DIRECTORS’ REMUNERATION
Please indicate below any remuneration the directors have received.
Details relating to transactions with related parties, including the directors of the company, are disclosed in Note 7 of the statutory accounts.
Alternatively if you have provided full details in your accounts then you do not need to disclose it here but you must explain in the space below where they are found within the accounts.
If no remuneration was received you must state that “no remuneration was received by the directors” below.
PART 4 – TRANSFERS OF ASSETS OTHER THAN FOR FULL CONSIDERATION
Please insert full details of any transfers of assets other than for full consideration to an asset locked body or for the benefit of the community. This must include the amount, or contain a fair estimate of the value, of such transfer.
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration has been made
If this does not apply you must state that “no transfer of assets other than for full consideration has been made” below.
PART 5 – SIGNATORY
The original report must be signed by a director of the company.
Signed Richard Finch Date 14 October 2026
You do not have to give any contact information in the box opposite but if you do, it will help the Registrar of Companies to contact you if there is a query on the form. The contact information that you give will be visible to searchers of the public record.
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