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Green Light Trust

3.1 The objects of the Charity (the “Objects”) are for the public benefit:-3.1.1 to protect, promote and improve peoples’ physical and mental health, working directly and in partnership with other organisations to ensure everyone can benefit from...

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £2.5m (2024)

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, Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Norfolk, Suffolk
Website
www.greenlighttrust.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Green Light Trust
Registered
1990

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£2.5m£2.7m
  • 2023£2.8m£2.5m
  • 2022£1.8m£1.8m
Earlier years
  • 2021£1.5m£1.3m
  • 2020£1.0m£828k

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2024: Government contracts 43% · Government grants 5%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

3.1 The objects of the Charity (the “Objects”) are for the public benefit:-3.1.1 to protect, promote and improve peoples’ physical and mental health, working directly and in partnership with other organisations to ensure everyone can benefit from engaging with the natural world;3.1.2 to advance education in the conservation, protection and improvement of the natural and physical environment, particularly but not exclusively through training and practical participation;3.1.3 to advance education in world ecology and the natural environment and the effects on that environment of both natural and other activities and particularly those pursued by people; and3.1.4 to promote the conservation, protection and improvement of the natural and physical environment, particularly but not exclusively through the creation, restoration and conservation of woodland, wetland, grassland, school and community gardens, parks and wild space.

Grants received

70 grants · £3,432,083 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.

Top funders

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £1,511,165 (13 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £628,200 (7 grants)
  • Suffolk Community Foundation · £588,399 (37 grants)
  • CAF · £316,585
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £296,364 (4 grants)

Most recent

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.

7 trustees on the board

3.3y median 3y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure
1
trustees past 6 years
10.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (3)

6
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 7Environment/conservation/heritage 6The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 6Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Disability 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.

Professional services 9Education 7Finance 6

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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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£2.5m 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.

1.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 3.8 in 2020

71 from 31 in 2020
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.
48%
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
1000977
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 22 OCTOBER 1990, CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 1 JUNE 1993 AND SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 22 JUNE 1997.AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 20/04/2015 as amended on 18 Oct 2022 as amended on 03 Oct 2022 as amended on 03 Oct 2022
Companies House
Company number 02550866 · Active
Contact on the register
01284830829 · info@greenlighttrust.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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