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Registered charity · Liverpool

Alternative Futures Group Limited

Alternative Futures Group Limited is a registered charity (number 1008587) based in Liverpool, governed by 10 trustees and chaired by Brian Martin Walsh since 2021. Latest income £81m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £81m (2025)
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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, Accommodation/housing
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.afgroup.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Alternative Futures Group Limited
Registered
1992

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£81m£77m
  • 2024£72m£68m
  • 2023£65m£61m
Earlier years
  • 2022£61m£60m
  • 2021£60m£58m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 99%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF ANY DISABILITY ARISING FROM ANY PHYSICAL OR MENTAL STATE, AGE, ACCIDENT OR AS A RESULT OF ANY DISEASE OR INFECTION OR WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES, MENTAL HEALTH AND ANY OTHER SPECIAL NEEDS, AND TO RELIEVE THE STRESSES AND FINANCIAL NEEDS EXPERIENCED BY THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS THROUGH, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE PROVISION OF ACCOMMODATION, SUPPORT AND EDUCATION AND TRAINING.

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

3.7y median 4y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.9y
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 10The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 10Accommodation/housing 9General Charitable Purposes 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.

Health and social care 19Property 3Education 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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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£80.7m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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.

4.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 1.7 in 2021

1638 from 1663 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
1008587
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 22/01/1992AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03/09/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30/06/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/09/2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/06/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/02/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/04/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/04/2014 as amended on 18 Nov 2020 as amended on 09 Feb 2022
Companies House
Company number 02679915 · Active
Contact on the register
01514895501 · ask@afgroup.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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