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Registered charity · Hull

Avocet Trust

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £8.0m (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
Disability
Where
Kingston Upon Hull City, East Riding Of Yorkshire, City Of York
Website
avocettrust.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Avocet Trust
Registered
1991

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£8.0m£8.0m
  • 2024£7.1m£7.2m
  • 2023£5.9m£6.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£6.4m£6.3m
  • 2021£6.4m£6.2m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2024: Government contracts 4%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE HANDICAPPED DISABLED OR OTHERWISE DISADVANTAGED BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES INCLUDING HOUSING CALCULATED TO RELIEVE THEIR NEEDS. 2. THE RELIEF OF PERSONS PARTICULARLY YOUNG PERSONS WHO ARE HOMELESS OR THREATENED WITH HOMELESSNESS BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN PROVIDING ACCOMMODATION AND SUPPORT FOR SUCH PERSONS.

Grants received

2 grants · £121,717 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

Most recent

  • Vivensa Foundation £115,3232013-09-10
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £6,3942006-10-24
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

4.2y median 4y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

8
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 8

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

Health and social care 11Arts and leisure 1Business services 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across 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.

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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£8.0m 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.

6.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 7.7 in 2021

284 from 202 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1004537
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 20 SEPT 1991 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 12 JUNE 1995; CERTIFICATE UPON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 22 NOV 1995; SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 25 OCT 2004; SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 16 OCT 2006.
Companies House
Company number 02647631 · Active
Contact on the register
01482329226 · info@avocettrust.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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