Registered charity · Manchester
Destination Florida
- 8 trustees
- Income £597k (2025)
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
- General Charitable Purposes, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability
- Where
- Throughout England
- Website
- www.destinationflorida.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1991
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£597k£659k
- 2024£531k£203k
- 2023£559k£758k
Earlier years
- 2022£242k£189k
- 2021£334k£173k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
(1) TO RELIEVE THE NEED OF CHILDREN WITH LIFE THREATENING DISEASES AND DISABLED CHILDREN AND IN PARTICULAR TO ASSIST SUCH CHILDREN TO HAVE HOLIDAYS TO AMONGST OTHER PLACES FLORIDA USA (2) TO RELIEVE THE NEED OF FAMILIES OF SUCH CHILDREN
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.
8 trustees on the board
- Stephen John Ashworth Frics Chair since 2022
- Benjamin Morrison since 2021
- David Phillips since 2024
- Dr Graham Mason since 2025
- Gerard Anthony Mason
- Mark Sharples since 2013
- Samantha Armstrong since 2022
- Samuel Lilley since 2026
Trustees past 6 years
- Mark Sharples since 2013
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Stephen John Ashworth Frics Chair since 2022
- Benjamin Morrison since 2021
- David Phillips since 2024
- Dr Graham Mason since 2025
- Gerard Anthony Mason
- Mark Sharples since 2013
- Samantha Armstrong since 2022
- Samuel Lilley since 2026
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Gaps to watch
- No commercial or business experience on the board
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
27.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 2.0 in 2020
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1003674
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 10 JUNE 1991 as amended on 12 Mar 2024 as amended on 14 Jul 2025
- Contact on the register
- 01617897788 · info@destinationflorida.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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