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Registered charity · Cheshire

The David Lewis Centre

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £44m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, Accommodation/housing
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.davidlewis.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The David Lewis Centre
Registered
1990

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£44m£42m
  • 2024£36m£38m
  • 2023£31m£32m
Earlier years
  • 2022£28m£27m
  • 2021£30m£26m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 96% · Government grants 3%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

3.1 THE RELIEF OF THOSE WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF MENTAL OR PHYSICAL DISABILITIES, INCLUDING EPILEPSY AND ASSOCIATED NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS ("THE BENEFICIARIES") IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION BY PROVIDING:= TEMPORARY OR PERMANENT ACCOMMODATION= EDUCATION, TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES= MEDICAL OR CLINICAL TREATMENT= SOCIAL AND WELFARE ACTIVITIES FOR THE PURPOSE OF IMPROVING CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE BENEFICIARIES3.2 THE PRESERVATION AND PROMOTION OF GOOD HEALTH BY CONDUCTING OR SUPPORTING STUDY AND RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES AND TREATMENT OF THE BENEFICIARIES' DISABILITIES AND CONDITIONS AND PUBLISHING AND DISSEMINATING THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF.

Grants received

5 grants · £214,758 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

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Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

10 trustees on the board

3.5y median 3.5y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (2)

10
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Disability 10Education/training 10The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 9Amateur Sport 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Education 12Arts and leisure 4Finance 2

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£44.0m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

5.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 8.1 in 2021

1024 from 847 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
99%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1000392
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 6 SEPTEMBER 1990 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 4 FEBRUARY 1993, 1 MAY 1997, 12 NOVEMBER 2004 AND 17 APRIL 2009. CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 25 JANUARY 1999
Companies House
Company number 02537501 · Active
Contact on the register
01565640000 · enquiries@davidlewis.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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