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Registered charity · Cardiff

Innovate Trust LTD

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £33m (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 and 3 more
Where
Cardiff, Vale Of Glamorgan, Rhondda Cynon Taff
Website
www.innovate-trust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Innovate Trust LTD
Registered
1992

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£33m£33m
  • 2024£30m£31m
  • 2023£28m£28m
Earlier years
  • 2022£25m£24m
  • 2021£24m£24m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 84% · Government grants 4%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

A) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND DISTRESS AMONGST PERSONS SUFFERING FROM DISABILITY OR SICKNESS PARTICULARLY LEARNING DISABILITY PHYSICAL DISABILITY AND MENTAL ILLNESS BY 1. PROVIDING FOR OR ASSISTING WITH THE CARE ACCOMMODATION TRAINING EDUCATION EMPLOYMENT AND OCCUPATION OF SUCH PERSONS AND 2. BY PROMOTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF FACILITIES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING BY SUCH PERSONS TO ENCOURAGE THEIR GREATER INCLUSION WITHIN THEIR COMMUNITIES.B) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND DISTRESS AMONGST THOSE WHO CARE FOR SUCH PERSONS. C) THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE NEEDS OF SUCH PERSONS.

Grants received

14 grants · £1,512,783 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 · £1,411,795 (11 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £100,988 (2 grants)
  • Nesta ·

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £19,9882026-03-09
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £98,4002025-10-28
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £54,8882024-09-03
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £10,0002021-11-19
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £54,4052021-08-19
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.

9 trustees on the board

10.6y median 11y
average tenure
19y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

7
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 9Education/training 9The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 9

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 8

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£33.3m 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.

0.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months

967 from 828 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.
88%
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
1010541
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 19 APRIL 1990 AND AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 16 NOVEMBER 1994
Companies House
Company number 02493904 · Active
Contact on the register
02920382151 · info@innovate-trust.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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